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a new version of GnuPG.
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4.13) How can I used GnuPG in an automated environment?
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4.14) Which email-client can I use with GnuPG?
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4.15) Can't we have a gpg library?
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5. COMPATIBILITY ISSUES
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5.1) How can I encrypt a message so that PGP 2.x is able to decrypt it?
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in it - why?
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6.9) What is the thing with "can't handle multiple signatures"?
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6.10) If I submit a key to a keyserver, nothing happens ...
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6.11) I still have a problem. How do I report a bug?
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6.11) I get "gpg: waiting for lock ..."
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6.12) I still have a problem. How do I report a bug?
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7. ADVANCED TOPICS
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7.1) How does this whole thing work?
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following disadvantages: the signature is larger, it is hard to
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create such a key useful for signatures which can withstand some
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real world attacks, you don't get any extra security compared to
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DSA, there might be compatability problems with certain PGP
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DSA, there might be compatibility problems with certain PGP
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versions. It has only been introduced because at the time it was
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not clear whether there is was patent on DSA.
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text encryption, and RFC2015 style (previously PGP/MIME, now
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OpenPGP). The latter has full MIME support. Some MUAs support only
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one of them, so whichever you actually use depends on your needs as
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well as the capabilities of your adressee.
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well as the capabilities of your addressee.
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The following list is probably not exhaustive:
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may be possible to use a wrapper.
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4.15) Can't we have a gpg library?
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This has been frequently requested. However, the current viewpoint
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of the GnuPG maintainers is that this would lead to several security
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issues and will therefore not be implemented in the foreseeable
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future.
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5. COMPATIBILITY ISSUES
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may use IDEA even today. In that case, you may refer to Question
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3.3 about how to add IDEA support to GnuPG and read
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http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/pgp2x.html
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to perfrom the migration.
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to perform the migration.
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5.3) How can I conventional encrypt a message, so that PGP can decrypt
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privileges as soon as locked memory is allocated.
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On UnixWare 2.x and 7.x you should install GnuPG with the
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'plock' priviledge to get the same effect:
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'plock' privilege to get the same effect:
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filepriv -f plock /path/to/gpg
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If you can't or don't want to install GnuPG setuid(root), you can
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feature isn't yet implemented, but it's a bug not to say it. Newer
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versions issue a warning. Upgrade to 1.0.4 or newer.
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6.11) I still have a problem. How do I report a bug?
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6.11) I get "gpg: waiting for lock ..."
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A previous gpg has most likely exited abnormally and left a lock
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file. Go to ~/.gnupg and look for .*.lock files and remove them.
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6.12) I still have a problem. How do I report a bug?
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Are you sure that it's not been mentioned somewhere on the mailing
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lists? Did you have a look at the bug list (You'll find a link to
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doc/faq.raw
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doc/faq.raw
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following disadvantages: the signature is larger, it is hard to
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create such a key useful for signatures which can withstand some
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real world attacks, you don't get any extra security compared to
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DSA, there might be compatability problems with certain PGP
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DSA, there might be compatibility problems with certain PGP
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versions. It has only been introduced because at the time it was
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not clear whether there is was patent on DSA.
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@ -370,7 +370,7 @@ messages?
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text encryption, and RFC2015 style (previously PGP/MIME, now
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OpenPGP). The latter has full MIME support. Some MUAs support only
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one of them, so whichever you actually use depends on your needs as
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well as the capabilities of your adressee.
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well as the capabilities of your addressee.
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The following list is probably not exhaustive:
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@ -387,6 +387,13 @@ messages?
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may be possible to use a wrapper.
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<Q> Can't we have a gpg library?
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This has been frequently requested. However, the current viewpoint
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of the GnuPG maintainers is that this would lead to several security
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issues and will therefore not be implemented in the foreseeable
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future.
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<S> COMPATIBILITY ISSUES
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<Dcompat>
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may use IDEA even today. In that case, you may refer to Question
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<Ridea> about how to add IDEA support to GnuPG and read
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[H a href=http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/pgp2x.html]http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/pgp2x.html[H /a]
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to perfrom the migration.
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to perform the migration.
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<Q> How can I conventional encrypt a message, so that PGP can decrypt
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@ -479,7 +486,7 @@ it?
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privileges as soon as locked memory is allocated.
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On UnixWare 2.x and 7.x you should install GnuPG with the
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'plock' priviledge to get the same effect:
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'plock' privilege to get the same effect:
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[H pre]
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filepriv -f plock /path/to/gpg
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[H /pre]
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feature isn't yet implemented, but it's a bug not to say it. Newer
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versions issue a warning. Upgrade to 1.0.4 or newer.
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<Q> I get "gpg: waiting for lock ..."
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A previous gpg has most likely exited abnormally and left a lock
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file. Go to ~/.gnupg and look for .*.lock files and remove them.
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<Q> I still have a problem. How do I report a bug?
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Are you sure that it's not been mentioned somewhere on the mailing
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