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libassuan

brew install libassuan v3.0.2 LGPL-2.1-or-later AND GPL-3.0-or-later AND FSFULLR

C shared library for inter-process communication used by GnuPG and related tools.

Why you might care

Libassuan is a low-level IPC library that handles protocol negotiation and message passing between processes; it's a build/runtime dependency for GnuPG, GPGME, and other cryptographic tools. Unless you're directly developing GnuPG-adjacent software or maintaining a system installation, you'll pull this in transitively rather than installing it directly.

Categories

library ipc

Alternatives

D-Bus ZeroMQ
33.2k
30-day installs · #178
127.1k
90-day · #160
357.4k
365-day · #188

Runtime dependencies

libgpg-error

Links

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