Portable GnuPG? (Ideally with portable TB+Enigmail)
Hi everybody! I've been using GnuPG for a while now (The 1.x branch in combination with TB and Enigmail, to be precise.) and have been very happy with it, happy enough that I keep trying to convert people, running little informal workshops showing my friends and aquaintances the basics of encryption and how to use it. One barrier so far is that people sometimes are hesistant to install a bunch of stuff just to check something out, especially when it's something weird, like crypto. So I've been thinking that a portable version, complete with TV, Enigmail and trustdb/pubring/secring files safed on a flash drive would be useful, as I could just show people how it worked right on their own pcs without much installation or configuration. Sadly, I'm not skilled enough to do this myself and my online search has only found something like http://portableapps.com/node/11402 , which didn't work when I tried it. (Installed it using the instruction at the link, Enigmail didn't find the portable gnupg version. -_-'') So, have I missed anything that's already out there or am I out of luck? Aaron ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
Re: Portable GnuPG? (Ideally with portable TB+Enigmail)
On 15.03.2010 21:14, Grant Olson wrote: I think you just found the wrong page. Install the latest thunderbirdPortable from here: http://portableapps.com/support/thunderbird_portable And install gpg from here: http://portableapps.com/support/thunderbird_portable#encryption This one isn't listed as a development test or beta status like the page you had. Then install Enigmail. It worked fine for me. Thanks, I'll try that one. (Weird that I didn't find it. Huh...) Also keep in mind it's not a good idea to insert a USB Drive with your private key into an untrusted computer. You might want to make a dummy key for demo purposes. Yeah, getting copies of your private keys on untrusted pcs (and entering the passphrase there) is a Bad Idea. I'll probably make a zipped blank package, with TB/Enigmail/Gnupg installed but without keys or anything, to show keygen, importing etc. So I could extract the prepared package, show my stuff and then just delete the whole thing and start from from the fresh package on the next computer. (Although, ideally, people would say Wow, that's awesome! and just keep using the programs. ^_^ ) Aaron ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
Re: Portable GnuPG? (Ideally with portable TB+Enigmail)
Maybe winPT portable as a GUI. But last time I got some alerts made by my antivirus while runing winpt portable Now what I'm doing is have my pendrive (better with CD read only system if you're got a truly paranoia) with Ubuntu Privacy Remix installed https://www.privacy-cd.org/ .. + Truecrypt GUI ready to run. All the best Andre Amorim. On 15 March 2010 21:24, Aaron Berthold lis...@story-games.at wrote: On 15.03.2010 21:14, Grant Olson wrote: I think you just found the wrong page. Install the latest thunderbirdPortable from here: http://portableapps.com/support/thunderbird_portable And install gpg from here: http://portableapps.com/support/thunderbird_portable#encryption This one isn't listed as a development test or beta status like the page you had. Then install Enigmail. It worked fine for me. Thanks, I'll try that one. (Weird that I didn't find it. Huh...) Also keep in mind it's not a good idea to insert a USB Drive with your private key into an untrusted computer. You might want to make a dummy key for demo purposes. Yeah, getting copies of your private keys on untrusted pcs (and entering the passphrase there) is a Bad Idea. I'll probably make a zipped blank package, with TB/Enigmail/Gnupg installed but without keys or anything, to show keygen, importing etc. So I could extract the prepared package, show my stuff and then just delete the whole thing and start from from the fresh package on the next computer. (Although, ideally, people would say Wow, that's awesome! and just keep using the programs. ^_^ ) Aaron ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users -- Andre Amorim GnuPG KEY ID: 0x587B1970 FingerPrint: 42AE C929 4D91 4591 4E75 430F 78D9 53B4 587B 1970 Download: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x587B1970 ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
