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Testing the compatibility of gpg and bouncy-gpg

For bouncy-gpg I needed to assert compatibility with gnupg. This means a lot of shelling out gpg.

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Driving an external program from java and parsing its output is seldom needed. When it is needed, in often means: no stable API (changes in command output), configuration files, sporadic errors, and orchestrating parallel execution. To test the compatibility with gpg I needed to drive the GnuPG executable.

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Information security and software development are enablers for a successful company. During the last 20+ years of my working life I have always been convinced that outstanding success is only possible if everybody works together to find and reach a common goal.