Re: path defaults for gpg.conf

2013-02-01 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi John, > current directory issue, I am curious about why including it would result > in a less secure situation. I did not exactly say that it does. I said that I prefer it that way since it uses well-defined places that I may look after. Add

Re: path defaults for gpg.conf

2013-02-01 Thread John
Hello, Olav. I sincerely appreciate your replies. Like the other poster asking about the current directory issue, I too am curious about why including it would result in a less secure situation. Perhaps an example of how so would be helpful in this regard, at least for me or someone else who i

Re: path defaults for gpg.conf

2013-02-01 Thread Doug Barton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 01/31/2013 10:43 PM, Olav Seyfarth wrote: | Hello, John. | |> Is that about right, then? | | Yes. | |> Would it not be true that gpg.exe would finally look in its own current |> directory, which should suffice consequently for this purpose? You

Re: path defaults for gpg.conf

2013-01-31 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hello, John. > Is that about right, then? Yes. > Would it not be true that gpg.exe would finally look in its own current > directory, which should suffice consequently for this purpose? That's an authors' decision. I'm fine with it. It gives

Re: path defaults for gpg.conf

2013-01-31 Thread John
Hi John, some of your questions might be answered by reading README.W32 which you can find in the doc folder of GnuPG source tarballs: | GnuPG makes use of a per user home directory to store its keys as well as | configuration files. The default home directory is a directory named "gnupg"

Re: path defaults for gpg.conf

2013-01-31 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi John, some of your questions might be answered by reading README.W32 which you can find in the doc folder of GnuPG source tarballs: | GnuPG makes use of a per user home directory to store its keys as well as | configuration files. The default

path defaults for gpg.conf

2013-01-31 Thread John A. Wallace
I have two instances of GnuPG installed on a Windows 7 OS. I also use an application that appears to have installed an instance of it for its own use and put it into one of its separate folders along with some of the files needed with it, including "gpg.exe" and a unique "gpg.conf" file, among othe