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GNUPG FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Version: 0.31
Version: 0.32
Last-Modified: Oct 24, 2000
Maintained-by: Nils Ellmenreich <nils 'at' gnupg.org>
This is the GnuPG FAQ. The latest HTML version is available
here. <http://www.gnupg.org/faq.html>
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all questions may be in the section they belong to. Suggestions about
how to improve the structure of this FAQ are welcome.
Please send additions and corrections to the maintainer. Don't send
message like "This should be a FAQ - what's the answer?". If it hasn't
been asked before, it isn't a FAQ. Maybe you should have a look at the
mailing list archive. Otherwise, please provide the answer to be
Please send additions and corrections to the maintainer. Please, don't
send message like "This should be a FAQ - what's the answer?". If it
hasn't been asked before, it isn't a FAQ. Maybe you should have a look
at the mailing list archive. Otherwise, please provide the answer to be
included here.
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4.12) I can't decrypt my symmetrical only (-c) encrypted message with
a new version of GnuPG.
4.13) How can I used GnuPG in an automated environment?
4.14) Which email-client can I use with GnuPG?
5. COMPATIBILITY ISSUES
5.1) How can I encrypt a message so that PGP 2.x is able to decrypt it?
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*PLEASE:*
Before posting to a list, read this FAQ and the available
documentation. This way you help people focus on topics that have
not yet been resolved.
documentation. In addition, search the list archive - maybe your
question has already been discussed. This way you help people focus
on topics that have not yet been resolved.
2.2) Where do I get GnuPG?
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random data through /dev/random - this should be the preferred
choice on these systems. Also Solaris users with the SUNWski package
installed have a /dev/random. In these cases, use the configure
option --enable-static-rnd=linux.
option --enable-static-rnd=linux. In addition, there's
also the kernel random device by Andi Maier
< http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~andi>
<http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~andi>, but it's still beta. Use at
own risk!
On other systems, the Entropy Gathering Daemon (EGD) is a good
choice. It is a perl-daemon that monitors system activity nad hashes
choice. It is a perl-daemon that monitors system activity and hashes
it into random data. See the download page <http://www.gnupg.org/download.html>
how to obtain egd. Use --enable-static-rnd=egd here.
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turn can revoke all the subkeys installed on that machine and
install new subkeys.
4.14) Which email-client can I use with GnuPG?
Using GnuPG to encrypt email is one of the most popular
uses. Several mail clients or mail user-agents (MUA) support GnuPG
at varying degrees. Simplifying a bit, there are two ways a mail can
be encrypted with GnuPG: the "old style" ASCII armor, i.e. plain
text encryption, and RFC2015 style (previously PGP/MIME, now
OpenPGP). The latter has full MIME support. Some MUAs support only
one of them, so whichever you actually use depends on your needs as
well as the capabilities of your adressee.
The following list is probably not exhaustive:
OpenPGP: Mutt (Unix), Emacs/Mew, Becky2 (Windows, with plugin),
TkRat (Unix). There is effort for a Mozilla plugin and a
group works on support for Emacs/GNUS.
ASCII: Emacs/{VM,GNUS}/MailCrypt, Mutt(Unix), Pine(Unix), and
probably many more.
5. COMPATIBILITY ISSUES
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supports locking without being root. The program drops root
privileges as soon as locked memory is allocated.
On UnixWare 2.x and 7.x you you should install GnuPG with the
On UnixWare 2.x and 7.x you should install GnuPG with the
'plock' priviledge to get the same effect:
filepriv -f plock /path/to/gpg