--hidden-recipient

[edemocracy]

Please implement the --hidden-recipient / -R flag
thank you

[isislovecruft]

@edemocracy This is actually already implemented! The only thing is that the --hidden-recipient and --throw-keyids options should be added to hex_options and none_options respectively, in _parsers._get_options_group(). After that's added, then, to use --hidden-recipient, one would do:

import gnupg

keyid = 'a3adb67a2cdb8b35'
gpg = gnupg.GPG(homedir='./hidden-recipient-test')
gpg.options = ['--hidden-recipient %s' % keyid]
key = gpg.recv_keys('hkp://pgp.mit.edu', keyid)
fingerprint = key.fingerprints[0]
message = 'the secret words are squeamish ossifrage'
encrypted = gpg.encrypt(message, fingerprint)

I totally agree that this should be added.

[isislovecruft]

Okay, 2bac4a6 is merged to develop for release in version 1.3.2. It only whitelists the relevant GnuPG binary flags… it doesn't really make it easy to use the "anonymous" encryption feature.

Future work should include probably include adding some sort of hide_recipients=False parameter to the gnupg._meta.GPGBase._encrypt() method… I made Issue #67 for this.