p≡p Engine

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0. What it is

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The p≡p engine is a Free Software library encapsulating implementations of:

- Key Management

  Key Management in p≡p engine is based on GnuPG key chains (NetPGP on iOS).

  Keys are stored in an OpenPGP compatbile format and can be used for different

  crypto implementations.

- Trust Rating

  p≡p engine is sporting a two phase trust rating system. In phase one there is

  a rating based on channel, crypto and key security named “comm_types”. In

  phase 2 these are mapped to user representable values which have attached

  colors to present them in traffic light semantics.

- Abstract Crypto API

  The Abstract Crypto API is providing functions to encrypt and decrypt data or

  full messages without requiring an application programmer to understand the

  different formats and standards.

- Message Transports

  p≡p engine will sport a growing list of Message Transports to support any

  widespread text messaging system including E-Mail, SMS, XMPP and many more.

p≡p engine is written in C99. It is not meant to be used in application code

directly. Instead, p≡p engine is coming together with a list of software

adapters for a variety of programming languages and development environments.

p≡p engine is under Gnu General Public License v3. If you want to use it under

a different license, please contact mailto:council@pep.foundation.

1. Dependencies

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p≡p engine is depending on the following FOSS libraries:

libetpan, see https://github.com/fdik/libetpan

zlib, see http://zlib.net/

OpenSSL, see http://openssl.org/

iconv, see http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/

Cyrus SASL, see http://cyrusimap.org/

GnuPG via GPGME, see https://gnupg.org/

NetPGP/p≡p, see https://cacert.pep.foundation/dev/repos/netpgp-et/

2. Building p≡p engine

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p≡p engine has an old style Makefile for building it.

The build is configured in Makefile.conf

It supports the common targets

$ make all

$ make install

$ make clean

and additionally

$ make package # for building a .tar.bz2 with the source distribution

On Windows, use Visual Studio.

1. How to cross-build

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For cross-building, BUILD_FOR is being used. I.e.:

$ BUILD_FOR=yourOS make -e

2. How to build the databases

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p≡p Engine uses two databases: ~/.pEp_management (on *NIX) or

%LOCALAPPDATA%\pEp\management.db on Windoze respectively, and

/usr/local/share/system.db on *NIX or %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\pEp\system.db

respectively. The latter contains the Trustwords dbs.

The managment db is being created by the first call of init() of p≡p Engine. It

does not need to be created manually. system.db is being created by using the

DDL in db/create_system_db.sql – the content is created by db/dic2csv.py

out of hunspell's dictionary packages (or something similar) and then being

imported using sqlite3's .import command. Dictionary files for different

languages are part of p≡p engine source distribution.

$ make db

$ make -C db install

You can test the Trustwords in system.db using db/trustwords.py

Both Python tools have a switch --help