[Enigmail] enigmail with portable gpg

[Alan Yoder]

John W. Moore III wrote:
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> Alan Yoder wrote:
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>> John W. Moore III wrote:
>> Alan Yoder wrote:
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>>>>> The version of gpg I have to use is the windows version of ggpg 1.4.9
>>>>> (precompiled for me)
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>> I'd like to see the output from running --version on the pre-compiled
>> GnuPG You have.
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> gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.9
> 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: home
> Supported algorithms:
> Pubkey: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA
> Cipher: 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH
> Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, SHA224
> Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2
>
> - From looking over the Output File You supplied [above] I see no major
> difference between what was 'pre-compiled' for You and the standard
> issue 1.4.9.  :-\
>
>   

I believe I got the compiled binary from http://www.gnupg.org itself. 
Sorry I wasn't clear, nobody compiled it special. I just don't have the 
facilities to play with source code so had to get something I could run 
straight out of the box.

> My original thinking was that perhaps the version compiled for You had
> included the IDEA algorithm natively to comply with a specific
> Enterprise use.  Since IDEA is absent I conclude that the 'pre-compile'
> reason was to satisfy some IT wonk's concerns that RTU GnuPG might have
> some 'hidden' security issue and Compiling from Source was in order to
> satisfy the Issuer that everything was secure.  I also notice that there
> have been no 'watermarks' added to the version numbering I see no
> problem with using the out-of-the-box Thunderbird-Portable w/GnuPG &
> Enigmail.  Without seeing exactly which Binaries were included with Your
> version it looks very much like stock GPG2GO; which You've discovered
> needs the .bat File in order to call the Command window.
>
> Just My 2 cents worth, mind You, but unless You've become attached to
> command line with Copy/Paste I'd switch to a Portable App with GUI.
>
>   
Heh. I grew up with command line, being blind my world is GUIless, up to 
a few years ago. I've had to start going GUI with my applications, even 
though I really don't want to.
Enigmail is still stating that my keyrings are in c:\documents and 
settings\blahblahblah instead of g:\gpg\home
The output from the file that I pasted was from the command line I had 
run that go.bat file to get to.
That of course showed \gpg\home where it was supposed to. enigmail just 
won't see it.
I already tried to override the gpg.exe path, and specify the go.bat 
file, though that didn't work either.


> JOHN ;)
> Timestamp: Saturday 05 Jul 2008, 14:37  --400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
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