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Sending this to the gpg4win list also, per a few suggestions<br>
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<td>Consolidation, Differences, Overlap in Features, ETC......</td>
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<td>Sat, 04 Feb 2006 21:22:46 -0600</td>
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<td>Alan Jones <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:alan@ajsquared.us"><alan@ajsquared.us></a></td>
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<pre>[Several Questions and thought all rolled in to one e-mail so please
bear with me. Not directly related to WinPT but figured this was the
best place to start]
I have long been following WinPT <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.winpt.org">http://www.winpt.org</a> . I have always
liked the interface, features etc. The only thing I felt was missing
was in installer for people that were not comfortable with zipping and
extracting files.
At the same time with work I have had to use Outlook (& Exchange) so I
have had an interest in the development of GPGol
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.g10code.de/p-gpgol.html">http://www.g10code.de/p-gpgol.html</a> but have not actually tried GPGol yet
as there was not a good installer and it seemed like it was still under
heavy development.
I see there is a new installer coming out called gpg4win
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.gpg4win.org/">http://www.gpg4win.org/</a> that is in development that has the above
packages and others. I am not clear what the current status of it is...
Is it stable, usable, creating appropriate icons and system entries?
I don't know much about the gpg4win project, but I hope the installer
gives a good brief description of each program and allows the user to
chose if they want to install all or a subset of the programs.
There seems to be a fair amount of overlap in features between all the
programs part of the gpg4win project. Can anyone delve into the details
of what and why certain programs made it into the project and
differences/uses?
The old installer that some used had GPGRelay, but I did not see that
included. Why is that?
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://sites.inka.de/tesla/gpgrelay.html">http://sites.inka.de/tesla/gpgrelay.html</a>
What I would love to see is the universal installer that sounds like it
is in development with a universal Keymanager etc. Several of these
GnuPG shells have their own Keymanager when it seems like it would be
benifical to the user and devlopers if the same Key Manager (and other
common areas) use the same code. So that WinPT, GPGol, GPA, GPGee, etc
all used the same common code and interface.
I know it may be out of the scope for some but it might be nice if the
gpg4win installer also came with Enigmail <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://enigmail.mozdev.org/">http://enigmail.mozdev.org/</a>
the Thunderbird GNUpg interface.
Sorry for the long e-mail, just wanted to get all my questions in one
place instead of several small e-mails.
What do others think of the consolidated Key Manager ideas?
I will be interested to hear about some of the other thoughts and
questions above.
thanks
Alan
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