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@@ -71,11 +71,10 @@ Daemon and possibly more in the future.")
(home-page "http://gnupg.org/")
(synopsis "Cryptographic function library")
(description
- "GNU Libgcrypt is a general purpose cryptographic library based on
-the code from GnuPG. It provides functions for all
-cryptographic building blocks: symmetric ciphers, hash
-algorithms, MACs, public key algorithms, large integer
-functions, random numbers and a lot of supporting functions.")
+ "Libgcrypt is a general-purpose cryptographic library. It provides the
+standard cryptographic building blocks such as symmetric ciphers, hash
+algorithms, public key algorithms, large integer functions and random number
+generation.")
(license lgpl2.0+)))
(define-public libassuan
@@ -165,15 +164,10 @@ specifications are building blocks of S/MIME and TLS.")
(home-page "http://gnupg.org/")
(synopsis "GNU Privacy Guard")
(description
- "GnuPG is the GNU project's complete and free implementation of
-the OpenPGP standard as defined by RFC4880. GnuPG allows to
-encrypt and sign your data and communication, features a
-versatile key managment system as well as access modules for all
-kind of public key directories. GnuPG, also known as GPG, is a
-command line tool with features for easy integration with other
-applications. A wealth of frontend applications and libraries
-are available. Version 2 of GnuPG also provides support for
-S/MIME.")
+ "The GNU Privacy Guard is a complete implementation of the OpenPGP
+standard. It is used to encrypt and sign data and communication. It
+features powerful key management and the ability to access public key
+servers.")
(license gpl3+)))
(define-public gpgme