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1.4
1.5 MoinMessage provides a library for creating, signing, encrypting, decrypting,
1.6 and verifying PGP/GPG content in Python along with mechanisms for updating
1.7 -MoinMoin wiki instances with such content such that contributors can be
1.8 -identified from their PGP signatures and such details used to authenticate
1.9 +MoinMoin wiki instances with such content in such a way that contributors can
1.10 +be identified from their PGP signatures and such details used to authenticate
1.11 their contributions. It also permits PGP/GPG content to be stored in dedicated
1.12 message stores when received, enabling further processing of received content
1.13 and other means of perusal of such content.
1.14
1.15 +A MoinMessage as understood by this software consists of content that is first
1.16 +signed and then optionally encrypted, where this latter encryption step is
1.17 +used to limit the audience of a message to its recipient and thus to restrict
1.18 +knowledge of the message's author to the recipient. An extra signing step may
1.19 +be employed to authenticate the sender of the message for the recipient, thus
1.20 +providing a way of propagating encrypted messages between parties who trust
1.21 +each other without any decryption of the content or access to details about
1.22 +the author of the content.
1.23 +
1.24 Configuring GPG for a Wiki
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