I’ve created a GUI base app that reads a file and then generates a hash digest (any one from the four that I’ve coded in) which I use for verifying that a published hash value is a match against the one that my app generates, for the same file, after it’s been downloaded. My GUI app is a nicer way to do that, than using the command line.
While this kind of “file fingerprinting” is still used by some, it is beginning to be replaced by PGP/GPG signature files, so I’d like to create another app that works in the same way as my “Checksum” app, but checks the PGP/GPG signature files, rather than a hash digest.
Coding my “Checksum” app was fairly straightforward, not least because the hashlib functions, but what library would you use, for a project such as this?
For example, have you used the gpg-lite 0.12.3 library? Would you recommend that, or an alternate?
With thanks.