[Gpg4win-devel] Gpg4win 2.2.0 released

[Werner Koch]

On Sun, 25 Aug 2013 13:49, pvoigt at uos.de said:
> - However, I'm struggling with the new caching feature of gpg-agent
>   for SSH keys. If I got it right, it should be able to cache

Actually this is not a caching feature but gpg-agent/ssh-agent/pagenat
are used to create the signatures required by the ssh protocol.

>   comparable option necessary with Gpg4win 2.2.0? I roughly remembered
>   option "enable-putty-support" and even tested it but immediately

Right, put 

  enable-putty-support

into gpg-agent.conf and restart gpg-agent.  Also make sure that at this
time pagenant has not yet been started.  To start gpg-agent you may use
any crypto operation or run "gpg-connect-agent /bye".

>   obtained an "invalid option" error from gpg-agent. My current PuTTY
>   version is 0.63.

Probably a typo in your config file.  Check out the backend prefernces
configuration pages in gpa or Kleopatra; You will find a checkbox
labeled "enable putty support" under the gpg-agent tab.

>   As I need gpg I immediately uninstalled Vanilla version and proceeded
>   with full installation of Gpg4win.

Which includes a full claws version - I am not sure whether all our
patches made it into upstream claws.

>   outdated shipped Claws Mail. On top there is a Claws Mail
>   installation from
>   http://www.claws-mail.org/win32/claws-mail-3.9.2git55-pkg43.exe.

You better go with our version.  Installing a second (unstable one) one
may result into problems.

>   Install Gpg4win 2.2.0 again but with target dir
>   <usb_stick_drive>:\<target_dir> and subsequently run "mkportable.exe
>   <target_dir>".

No.  Install gpg4win the regular way.  If you have a permission problem,
you should be able to install gpg4win into any directy by ignoring the
installation errors.  mkportable should still work.  Assume the default
installation directory, you do

   cd c:\Program files(x86)\GNU\GnuPG
   mkportable  --light <usb_stick_drive>:\<target_dir>

Or use --full if you want the full installation.

>   bad experiences with other software under Windows I suppose some
>   registry entries might point to USB stick and make my

GnuPG won't access the registry at all - existing registry entries are
ignore by the portable version.  GnuPG switches itself into portable
mode if a file name "gpgconf.ctl" exists in the same directory of
"gpgconf.exe".

>   portable installation - inconvenient too. That's why it would be
>   helpful to know what mkportable.exe is really doing.

It merely copies all required file and creates a two configuraion files
(gpgconf.ctl and one for Kleopatra).

> - Generally, it would be desirable, that the latest Gpg4win includes
>   latest Claws Mail release. Gpg4win 2.2.0 says: Claws Mail 3.9.1 while
>   Claws Mail 3.9.2 (even for Windows) is out now for quite a long time.

We can't always do that.  It took me quite some time to get 3.9.1 ready
for the new toolchain.  Also, don't have the time to keep up with the
latest Claws development.  It is a bit unfortunate that Colin once
decided to create a separate installer.  On the other hand I can
understand this due to the long delays in gpg4win development.
Hopefully we can eventually merge them again.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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