Am Mittwoch 01 Dezember 2021 01:19:45 schrieb Sven Richter via Gnupg-users: > As the title states, why are there no 64-bit libraries in GnuPG for > Windows? (The installer from the binary releases)
I don't know (but I respond with hints and repeat the question as HTML emails are filtered out by some participants.) > It's not like they don't > exist at all but they are part of Gpg4win only. Shouldn't they be included > directly in the core part? Why are they "moved out" to Gpg4win? It seems > weird to me that I would have to install gpg4win just to get hold of some > 64-bit libraries for GnuPG. Gpg4win is an official GnuPG distribution for Windows and it is possible to customise the installation to mainly install GnuPG. Overal I believe this maybe an oversight, maybe you should file an issue with dev.gnupg.org. > The fact that I'm already using Thunderbird 64-bit. As many will know, > Enigmail isn't much of a thing anymore. But I don't really trust that new > OpenPGP.js implementation they have now, As far as I know Thunderbird 78+ uses RNP/Botan, and not OpenPGP.js. > I rather use my existing setup. No > problem, there is a setting just for this in Thunderbird after all, simply > set mail.openpgp.allow_external_gnupg = true. Except that this got me vague > error messages.I'll spare everybody any long explanations but as hinted the > issue seemingly was my 64-bit client. After hours of work I ended up having > to install Gpg4win, copy the 64-bit libraries over and deinstall it again. Thanks for reporting that this worked fine for you after the right setup! > Luckily the libraries work despite Gpg4win 3.1.16 containing only GnuPG > 2.2.28, while I'm already using GnuPG 2.3.3, still seems questionable > though.This brought me to the question above: Why are the 64-bit libraries > only in Gpg4win? Why does GnuPG not come with 64-bit libraries in the first > place? I can't imagine that I'm the only or first one using GnuPG and > wanting it to work with 64-bit software. Most people use Gpg4win, only recently we had to recommed to install the crypto engine installers over it. So thanks for reporting the issue! Best Regards, Bernhard -- www.intevation.de/~bernhard +49 541 33 508 3-3 Intevation GmbH, Osnabrück, DE; Amtsgericht Osnabrück, HRB 18998 Geschäftsführer Frank Koormann, Bernhard Reiter, Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner
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