Sequoia is a comprehensive OpenPGP implementation written in Rust.
It is designed for developers and security-conscious users who need tools and libraries for working with certificates, keys, encrypted messages, detached signatures, and related authentication tasks across modern systems.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Implements OpenPGP as defined by RFC 9580 as well as the deprecated RFC 4880.
- Provides multiple Rust crates covering core OpenPGP functionality, networking, certificate storage, keystore support, and web of trust operations.
- Includes
sq, a command-line frontend for encryption, decryption, signing, verification, key and certificate management, and packet inspection. - Ships
sqv, a dedicated tool for robust detached signature verification with support for signature thresholds and validity time constraints. - Offers a C API for integration with non-Rust software, with bindings work available for other languages including Python and Ruby.
- Uses a policy framework so applications can apply configurable cryptographic and validation policies instead of being locked into hard-coded decisions.
Website: gitlab.com/sequoia-pgp/sequoia
Support:
Developer: Sequoia PGP
License: GNU Library General Public License v2.0
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