new release of the project , developing the GnuPG (GNU Privacy Guard) fork toolkit with tools for data encryption, electronic signatures, key management, and access to public key repositories.
Key distinctions of NeoPG include significant code cleanup from outdated algorithm implementations, transition from C to C++11, restructuring of source files to simplify maintenance, and providing an expandable API for plugin development. All new code is licensed under the permissive BSD license instead of GPLv3.
Among the changes, there is also a shift to the cmake build system, replacing Libgcrypt with the library , replacing built-in parsers and database handling code with libcurl and SQLite. NeoPG has discontinued the launch of long-running background processes gpg-agent, dirmngr (Directory Manager), and scdaemon (Smart Card Daemon), instead utilizing one-off auxiliary handlers that terminate immediately after task execution.
The core functionality of NeoPG is implemented as the libneopg library, which can be used in third-party applications. On top of libneopg, a command-line interface has been developed, merging the disparate utilities in GnuPG (gpg, gpgsm, gpgconf, gpgv, gpgtar, etc.) into a single executable file neopg with subcommand formatting similar to Git and support for colored output. Within the command āneopg gpg2ā, a layer is implemented to ensure compatibility with GnuPG 2.
In the new release, compatibility with the gpg2 utility has been improvedāif gpg2 is a hard link to neopg, a layer is automatically applied to ensure command compatibility with GnuPG 2. A new command āpacket dumpā has been added. Support for Ubuntu 18.04 has been ensured. Build scripts for Cmake have been improved. The fmtlib library is used instead of boost::format. An OpenPGP parser for key storage has been added.
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