[Gpg4win-users-en] last install time option for gpg4win-2.1.0

[Bernhard Reiter]

Hi Greg,

Am Sonntag, 9. September 2012 21:01:21 schrieb Greg Turner:
> I am new to GPG and just recently downloaded the program from your webpage.
> The installation went fine, but at the very end I came to a step which is
> not documented in the handbook or anywhere else and 
> I was a little at a loss as to
> what to do there. This had had to do with root certificates which had to be
> defined or were already declared as defined 
> - I didn't really understand what was explained there.
>
> I saw myself being confronted with two options here.
>
> a) Check the box and click next
> or
> b) cancel.

There are two methods of email end-to-end cryptography:
a) OpenPGP
b) S/MIME
For b) to work fully as it was intended, you would need to have a certificate 
that is trusted in a hierarchy. Trust comes from the root. So a number of
root certificates need to be installed for this trust to work. This usually 
requires some knowledge of this kind of hiearchical public key infrastructure 
(PKI).


> Here are my questions regarding the above mentioned issue:
>
> 1) Did I do the right thing in checking the box and clicking on next?

If you intend to use OpenPGP only, you can forget about the root certificates 
for b).

> 2) What did I actually do in this step?

If I remember correctly, you've just confirmed that you know
about the requirement of configurating root certificates if you want to use 
b).

> Many thanks (and also for the product which I am looking forward to
> testing)

Thanks for trying Gpg4win!
Bernhard

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