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diff --git a/lang/python/docs/dita/howto/part04/decryption.dita b/lang/python/docs/dita/howto/part04/decryption.dita new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e3918c55 --- /dev/null +++ b/lang/python/docs/dita/howto/part04/decryption.dita @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> +<!DOCTYPE dita PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Composite//EN" "ditabase.dtd"> +<dita> + <topic id="topic_vqx_tqy_5db"> + <title>Decryption</title> + <body> + <p>Decrypting something encrypted to a key in one's secret keyring is fairly straight + forward.</p> + <p>In this example code, however, preconfiguring either <codeph>gpg.Context()</codeph> or + <codeph>gpg.core.Context()</codeph> as <codeph>c</codeph> is unnecessary because there is + no need to modify the Context prior to conducting the decryption and since the Context is + only used once, setting it to c simply adds lines for no gain.</p> + <p> + <codeblock id="decry-1" outputclass="language-python">import gpg + +ciphertext = input("Enter path and filename of encrypted file: ") +newfile = input("Enter path and filename of file to save decrypted data to: ") + +with open(ciphertext, "rb") as cfile: + plaintext, result, verify_result = gpg.Context().decrypt(cfile) + +with open(newfile, "wb") as nfile: + nfile.write(plaintext) +</codeblock> + </p> + <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> + </body> + </topic> +</dita> |