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authorBen McGinnes <[email protected]>2018-06-28 08:02:43 +0000
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* Drafts of instructions for exporting public and secret keys ready, along in addition to the code.
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- <p>The data available in <codeph>plaintext</codeph> in this example is the decrypted content
- as a byte object, the recipient key IDs and algorithms in <codeph>result</codeph> and the
- results of verifying any signatures of the data in <codeph>verify_result</codeph>.</p>
+ <p>The data available in <codeph>plaintext</codeph> following a successful decryption in this
+ example is the decrypted content as a byte object, the recipient key IDs and algorithms in
+ <codeph>result</codeph> and the results of verifying any signatures of the data in
+ <codeph>verify_result</codeph>.</p>
+ <p>
+ <note>The graceful handling of <codeph>GPGMEError</codeph> with the try/except statement is
+ to handle the decryption error message produced if the file <codeph>ciphertext</codeph>,
+ and thus <codeph>cfile</codeph>, are encrypted with deprecated and insecure methods.
+ Particularly without MDC integrity checks or utilising deprecated encryption algorithms.
+ Messages and files encrypted with these are not decrypted with GPGME at all and any user
+ requiring archival access will need to access it manually with pre-GnuPG 2.3 versions of
+ the software which meets the requirements of the specific use case.</note>
+ </p>
+ <p/>
</body>
</topic>
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