Johnny can encrypt
November 30, 2025 ยท View on GitHub
Johnnycanencrypt aka jce is a Python module written in Rust to do basic encryption and decryption, and detached signing operations. It uses amazing sequoia-pgp library for the actual OpenPGP operations.
You can also use Yubikeys for the private key operations using this module.
How to build?
First install Rustup toolchain for your user.
Build dependencies in Fedora
sudo dnf install nettle clang clang-devel nettle-devel python3-devel pcsc-lite-devel
Build dependencies in Debian Bullseye
sudo apt install -y python3-dev libnettle8 nettle-dev libhogweed6 python3-pip python3-venv clang libpcsclite-dev libpcsclite1 libclang-9-dev pkg-config
python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
python -m pip install -r requirements-dev.txt
maturin develop
For a release build use the following command.
maturin build --release
Introduction
Please read the Introduction documentation.
API documentation
Please go through the full API documentation for detailed descriptions.