On Dienstag, 15. Mai 2007, Henry Hertz Hobbit wrote: > Thomas Vollmer wrote: > > <SNIP> > > First, at this point I am reluctant to have all of this in the > newsgroup. I am strongly in favor of giving only what works > there. I don't think most people are interested in all of the > nitty gritty details. They just want what works (actually, so > do I). I hate books that show me 15 ways of doing something > wrong before they show the correct way of doing it. Even if > somebody finally shows me the right way of doing it, I will > find some of the wrong ways of doing it myself (I just did it > right now in this instance). I was excoriated by Robert Hansen > for spamming so I am going out of group as much as possible for > now.
First, this is not a newsgroup, but a mailingl list. Second, newsgroups and mailingslist are not a FAQ. They are for discussions. So everybody could help with problems while finding the solution. > > > But this is NOT an esoteric exercise. I really do need this. > But I need it on Microsoft Windows, Linux, Sun Solaris, and > Macintosh. BUT IT MUST WORK ON MICROSOFT WINDOWS! > > > Do You have the gpg-agent running? This is required for gvim. > > I do NOT have gpg-agent running, and it said NOTHING about that > on the web page: > > http://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/script.php?script_id=661 Look at the release notes of version 1605. You find them right from the download link. There You will find: "- new plugin options to set preferences for symmetric/asymmetric and armor/binary files - fix for use with gvim. !! plugin works only in gvim if gpg-agent is available !!" > > A search with the terms: > > gpg-agent gnupg.vim > > at Google yields only three articles. That tells you how much > information is available on this (and yes, a Google search goes > into the GnuPG forum archives). In other words, we are entering > into esoteric terrritory. Contrast that with me investigating > a domain only to find that I have to add the terms -statistics > -squid -proxy to reduce the number to a manageable level of a > thousand or so entries for a domain that I am investigating for > abuse. > > I am using GnuPG 1.4.7 and that is all that will be available > on Windows as well. Do we need GnuPG 2.0.X, or can we use > GnuPG 1.4.7? Please remember that the original poster specified > that they are using Windows. I will hold off my post to the > newsgroup (which I was getting ready to do) until I can get this > all hammered out on what is required. Please keep in mind that > there are no binaries for either gpg-agent or libassuan on Windows > that are available separately. I will look at the latest version > of GPG4Win today. Up until now all I have ever installed was > GnuPG itself on Windows. I dont use gnupg on Windows boxes, so I cant tell You what package You need to get the gpg-agent. AFAIK before the Agent moved into the gnupg2 package there was a standalone package. But this should be way old now. > > The gnupg.vim people should clearly specify ALL of the requirements As I see for now, they do. > What are the requirements besides gpg-agent? I assumed that since > they mentioned vim version 6.0 and I am using 6.3.86 on FC3 Linux > and gvim 7.0 on Windows XP the requirements wouldn't be all that > stiff. Evidently, I was wrong. Please specify EVERYTHING that > is needed, since they didn't. I am assuming we also need > libassuan. Is that all that is needed or is there more? I don't > know what all of the requirements are. Keep in mind MS Windows > in this discussion. I need this to work across ALL platforms > that I am using and that is Windows, Linux, Solaris, and Macs. > > Note that I am editing only symmetric encrypted files (no OpenPGP > asymmetric encryption is being used). In other words, why should > I need gpg-agent? I can understand why it is needed for OpenPGP > (asymmetric) encryption, but not why it is needed for symmetric > encryption. I still can't see why that would cause a problem, > since it does the test for symmetric encryption first. gpg-agent only handels the mantra input. Because of this the gnupg plugin needs it für the GUI vim. There is no console which can be used for the input and a GUI dialog is needed. This is what gpg-agent does. > > I tried these modifications to gnupg.vim so I can edit only > symmetric encrypted files: > > --- gnupg.vim.2007May15 2007-05-15 04:29:06.000000000 -0600 > +++ gnupg.vim 2007-05-15 04:25:40.000000000 -0600 > @@ -109,15 +109,15 @@ > " check if gpg-agent is allowed > if (!exists("g:GPGUseAgent")) > - let g:GPGUseAgent = 1 > + let g:GPGUseAgent = 0 > endif > > " check if symmetric encryption is preferred > if (!exists("g:GPGPreferSymmetric")) > - let g:GPGPreferSymmetric = 0 > + let g:GPGPreferSymmetric = 1 > endif > > " check if armored files are preferred > if (!exists("g:GPGPreferArmor")) > - let g:GPGPreferArmor = 0 > + let g:GPGPreferArmor = 1 > endif > > but of course, that didn't work. > > HHH Thomas
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