[Enigmail] enigmail with portable gpg

[John W. Moore III]

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Alan Yoder wrote:
> 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)

> I'd like to see the output from running --version on the pre-compiled
> GnuPG You have.

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.  :-\

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.

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