Autocrypt support for mail agents

Note

There is a tentative name change consideration for this project which would result in change of links.

py-autocrypt provides a command line tool and a Python API to help mail agents integrate Autocrypt support and more.

See Installation for getting pip-installed with the autocrypt package released on the Python Package Index.

Here are some preliminary underlying aims and goals:

• Autocrypt Level 1 compliant functionality for use by mail user agents (MUAs)
• integrate with mailman3 and other server-side mailing software
• provide support for debugging error cases, easy deployment of fixes
• implement out-of-band verification and claimchains variants (see https://nextleap.eu)

The project was so far mainly developed by holger krekel (hpk42) with some participation/contributions from dkg, juga0 and azul. Holger work was and is partially funded by the European Commission through the NEXTLEAP research project on decentralized messaging.

Note that this repository got moved away from the https://github.com/autocrypt umbrella because that is mainly about the Autocrypt specification efforts while MUA/mail related implementations happen through different social arrangements.