On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Same here... By the way, I still don't understand the benefit from > GPG2... at first I thought the addition of support of x509 certificates
For example the Pinentry, which will relieve applications from the cumbersome task of asking the user for a passphrase and caching that passphrase. There is also the gpgconf stuff which provides a unified way of managing configuration files (for example GPA uses this). Add well, proper X.509/CMS support. > but I am not even sure about if GPG2 can generate such certificates... No gpg can't generate certifciates becuase that is the task of a CA. It can however create a key along with a certifciate signing requests. On the command line checkout "gpgsm --gen-key" > but I remember I saw, when the cetificate generation bug in OpenSSL for > debian machines was discovered, a site said "certificates generated by > GnuPG are not affected". Well, we use the term certifciates today for both, X.509 and OpenPGP becuase they are basically the same: A certificate showng that a key belongs to a certain entity. > For those reasons, if somebody asks if it is hard to install GPG on > windows, I say "no, install version 1.4.9, it is easy" ;-) Well, gpg4win is easier to install, you use the light version if you just need gpg. The old binary gnupg-1 installer is only maintained for people who need it on servers etc. Shalom-Salam, Werner -- Linux-Kongress 2008 + Hamburg + October 7-10 + www.linux-kongress.org Die Gedanken sind frei. Auschnahme regelt ein Bundeschgesetz. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
