Re: GnuPG 2.1 beta 3 released

2011-12-27 Thread Veet Vivarto
sorry my previous message was sent in error. Please disregard. Thank you. On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 4:42 AM, Veet Vivarto wrote: > Perhaps you find this relevant. I don't even begin to see why you are > interested in this. But who knows. > > On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 9:42 PM, Werner Koch wrote: > >

Re: GnuPG 2.1 beta 3 released

2011-12-27 Thread Veet Vivarto
Perhaps you find this relevant. I don't even begin to see why you are interested in this. But who knows. On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 9:42 PM, Werner Koch wrote: > On Sun, 25 Dec 2011 19:00, nicholas.c...@gmail.com said: > > > It would be very good if there were still a way to completely 'sandox' > (

Re: GnuPG 2.1 beta 3 released

2011-12-26 Thread Werner Koch
On Sun, 25 Dec 2011 19:00, nicholas.c...@gmail.com said: > It would be very good if there were still a way to completely 'sandox' (for > want of a better term) an instance of gpg, so that it uses its own key > rings and trust databases. I certainly find that for testing purposes it > is very usef

Re: GnuPG 2.1 beta 3 released

2011-12-25 Thread Nicholas Cole
On Friday, December 23, 2011, Werner Koch wrote: > On Fri, 23 Dec 2011 19:29, nicholas.c...@gmail.com said: > >> How will this interact with the --homedir option? Will --homedir be >> passed to gpg-agent or are the two entirely separate? > > No it won't. The gpg-agent has its own --homedir optio

Re: GnuPG 2.1 beta 3 released

2011-12-23 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 23 Dec 2011 19:29, nicholas.c...@gmail.com said: > How will this interact with the --homedir option? Will --homedir be > passed to gpg-agent or are the two entirely separate? No it won't. The gpg-agent has its own --homedir option which allows to have a flexible configuration. By desig

Re: GnuPG 2.1 beta 3 released

2011-12-23 Thread Nicholas Cole
>  * GPG does not anymore use secring.gpg but delegates all secret key >   operations to gpg-agent.  The import command moves secret keys to >   the agent. How will this interact with the --homedir option? Will --homedir be passed to gpg-agent or are the two entirely separate? I ask because at t

Re: GnuPG 2.1 beta 3 released

2011-12-21 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 05:26:49PM +0100, Werner Koch wrote: > Noteworthy changes already found in beta2: > > * ECC support for GPG as described by draft-jivsov-openpgp-ecc-06.txt. Eager for this. Will we be seeing ECC support in 1.4.x? -- . o . o . o . . o o . . . o . . . o . o o o

Re: GnuPG 2.1 beta 3 released

2011-12-21 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:24, nicholas.c...@gmail.com said: > I see that the man page still refers to the option --secret-keyring. > Presumably this option now does nothing? Right, it is a NOP. It is still there so you are able to use the same gpg.conf for all versions of GnuPG. I will fix the doc

Re: GnuPG 2.1 beta 3 released

2011-12-20 Thread Nicholas Cole
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Werner Koch wrote: >  * GPG does not anymore use secring.gpg but delegates all secret key >   operations to gpg-agent.  The import command moves secret keys to >   the agent. > >  * The OpenPGP import command is now able to merge secret keys. I see that the man p

GnuPG 2.1 beta 3 released

2011-12-20 Thread Werner Koch
Hello! We just released the third *beta version* of GnuPG 2.1. It has been released to give you the opportunity to check out the new features. It is marked as a beta versions and the plan is to release a couple more betas in the next months before we can declare 2.1.0 stable enough for gener