Mail Archives: cygwin-announce/2002/08/17/03:53:07
The 'gnupg' package has been updated to gnupg-1.0.7-3.
Some problems were fixed compared to the gnupg-1.0.7-1 version:
* Fixed textmount usage:
- gpg now handles configuration/key/trustdb files on textmounts correctly.
- All files to be de-/encrypted are now opened in binary mode. Consider the
use of dos2unix or unix2dos if you have problems with this.
* Disabled the "Please note that you don't have secure memory on this system"
warning. PLEASE NOTE you really don't have secure memory on your windows
system
* Fixed the use of loadable modules. Now all modules can be loaded with the
--load-extension=<modulename> command. The standard build will link
rndlinux statically, but if you run
$ ./configure --enable-static-rnd=none
then also the rndegd random generator modules will be build as a loadable
module. Attention! Now you have to call gpg with --load-extension=rnd???
to make it work properly.
* Added a build script with instructions for a native w32 executable. Read
/usr/src/gnupg-1.0.7-3/CYGWIN-PATCHES/gnupg.MinGW.README after typing:
$ cd /usr/src ; ./gnupg-1.0.7-3.sh prep
In that directory you will also find informations concerning the idea module.
* Fixed locale files:
- Now the message files do have a base filename.
General info
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GNU Privacy Guard is GNU's tool for secure communication and data storage.
It can be used to encrypt data and to create digital signatures. GnuPG is
a complete and free replacement for PGP. It includes an advanced key
management facility and is compliant with the proposed OpenPGP Internet
standard as described in RFC 2440.
Primary source for information for gnupg is at http://www.gnupg.org
Legal stuff
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Some countries have regulations on the use of cryptographics systems; It
may be unlawful to use GnuPG in these countries. Please visit
http://www.gnupg.org/legal.html
for more informations concerning this topic.
INSTALLATION:
To install this test package, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link
on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to
your system. Save it and run setup, answer the questions and pick up
`gnupg' from the `Utils' category.
Note that downloads from sources.redhat.com (aka cygwin.com) aren't
allowed due to bandwidth limitations. This means that you will need
to find a mirror which has this update.
In the US, ftp://mirrors.rcn.net/mirrors/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/
is a reliable high bandwidth connection.
In Japan, ftp://ftp.u-aizu.ac.jp/pub/gnu/gnu-win32/ is already
updated.
In Denmark, http://mirrors.sunsite.dk/cygwin/ is usually up-to-date.
If one of the above doesn't have the latest version of this package
you can either wait for the site to be updated or find another
mirror.
Please send questions or comments to the Cygwin mailing list at:
cygwin AT cygwin DOT com . If you want to subscribe go to:
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ideas and comments about the setup utility or Cygwin in general.
If you want to make a point or ask a question the Cygwin mailing
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