[Nottingham] gpg2

[Martin]

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On 19/05/12 08:36, david at gbenet.com wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I installed gpg2 - which is incompatible with enigmail causing it
> to freeze and malfunction. I also discovered that gpg2 is unable to
> digitally sign then encrypt to a recipients public key at the same
> time - and that gpg2 is unable to recognise specific gpg2 commands
> in your *.conf file.
> 
> Do not think therefore that upgrading to gpg2 is a good idea -
> another poster on another mailing list running Fedora-16 64 bit
> stated that enigmail failed to "initialise" with gpg2 and was
> unable to resolve the fact that they could neither sign or encrypt.
> I had the same problems with Fedora-16 32 bit.
> 
> Stick  with gpg 1.4.11 - its stable and works!

That looks to be distro dependant...

On Mandriva, I have:

$ gpg --version
gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.10
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Home: ~/.gnupg
Supported algorithms:
Pubkey: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA
Cipher: 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH, CAMELLIA128,
        CAMELLIA192, CAMELLIA256
Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, SHA224
Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2


AND also:

$ gpg2 --version
gpg (GnuPG) 2.0.15
libgcrypt 1.4.5
Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Home: ~/.gnupg
Supported algorithms:
Pubkey: RSA, ELG, DSA
Cipher: 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH, CAMELLIA128,
        CAMELLIA192, CAMELLIA256
Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, SHA224
Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2


And I've not noticed any clash so far...

Enigmail appears to be using gpg2:


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So that's an ok for Mandriva.

Shame the Mandriva distro is only just now slowly emerging from
uncertain times to hopefully make a comeback. Meanwhile, the Mageia
fork looks to be going good and strong:

http://www.mageia.org/en/


Cheers,
Martin

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