-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 23/05/12 20:28, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > On 5/23/12 3:07 PM, da...@gbenet.com wrote: >> Now I have 3 Linux Laptops. I started testing Linux distros with gpg2 >> - enigmail with Thunderbird - all 100 per cent Openpgp failed to >> initialise with pgp2 and in fact Openpgp always signed to my private >> key not my public key when using percipient rules. Here is a list of >> main Linux distros which all fail to initialise pgp2: > > As you were told on the Enigmail list, thousands of people have found > that GnuPG 2 works well with Enigmail on Linux. I demonstrated this to > you by sending to the list a correctly-signed email written on an Ubuntu > 12.04LTS system using GnuPG 2. > > If you're having troubles getting Enigmail to work there are many people > who are willing to help you. However, talking about how GnuPG 2 is > completely broken on Linux, and how Enigmail is clearly too buggy to > use, and everything else, is not exactly constructive. > > GnuPG 2 works just fine for the overwhelming majority of Linux users. I > don't know what your particular problem is, but it can likely be resolved. > >> Be warned - any encryption done will be to your private key and not >> to your public key. Enigmail may fail to initialise (gpg2). > > If it were encrypting to the private key, this would be a digital > signature. That's what a digital signature is -- an encryption > operation using the private key. I don't understand your complaint. If > you're saying "Enigmail will sign emails," well, yes, it's designed to > do that -- but I don't think that's what you're trying to say here. > >> There is no compatibility in above Linux distros with >> Enimail/Openpgp and gpg2 - you are best advised to stick with gpg >> (GnuPG) 1..4.11. > > I have been using Enigmail with GnuPG 2.x for literally years, and over > that time I have had no trouble interoperating with people using other > Linux distros or even entirely different operating systems. This is the > first time in all my years of using Enigmail that I have heard anyone > tell me that Enigmail's output is not interoperable with other systems. > This is not to say that you're not having trouble with Enigmail -- far > from it! -- but claiming there is "no compatibility" is a fairly extreme > claim, and I'm going to need to see some supporting evidence. > >> Now testing with a fellow Linux user revealed that if you have both >> gpg 1.4.11 and gpg2 installed you don't get any problems. So I can >> only conclude that gpg2 is an add-on widget to gpg 1.4.11 - gpg2 only >> recognises gpg 1.4.11 commands. > > GnuPG 2 is not an add-on widget to GnuPG 1.4. > > _______________________________________________ > Gnupg-users mailing list > Gnupg-users@gnupg.org > http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users > I ran the debugging programme with Openpgp debugging options to console and I got the message that with gpg2 installed one was not able to digitally sign an e-mail whilst encrypting to their public key which in all the named distros it encrypted to my private key - fact.
Another user who was using Fedora-16 64 bit with gnome stated that Openpgp would not initialise pgp2 - and me? I ran Fedora-16 32 bit - I had to reboot before openpgp would work (so badly as was useless) with gpg2. Fact I even when and installed Fedora-16 64 bit fact and encountered the same issues, Fact. It is a fact that Openpgp will only work if BOTH gpg 1.4.11 and the widget gpg2 is then added. Fact. Most Linux users have BOTH by default. Fact. That's why no one's reporting aany problems. Fact. If you remove from your system gpg 1.4.11 then you have real problems with open Openpgp - even Kleopatra. Fact Now if you don't like these facts then that's not a problem. I have decided to tell every one not to use gpg2 without having installed gpg 1.4.11. Now as I haave spent the last 10 days playing with all these Linux distros and sending all these test e-mails which have provided factual evidence as stated I can only conclude that Openpgp will only work with 1.4.11 installed. Now I have not mentioned anything about Windows XP and the latest version of PGP4Win which some times encrypts to my girlfriends private and not to my public key I've not figured out that one yet - unless I install gpg 1.4.11!! I will say this I am running Linux Mint LXDE 32 bit - on a 64 bit Acer Laptop with all updates. My gpg-agent's running because I added it to my .xsession file. Now I have un-ticked the box - use agent. Now Openpgp is pretty variable in how long my passphrase lasts - it could last all day yet it could last to the next e-mail. But I don't trust Openpgp to honour per-recipient rules. It does not work ie it will not encrypt to the e-mail address as set out in its own rule. Fact. Now if you can't even trust the software to do what it says on the tin - then you have to go back to basics as I have done. Fact. Now I have pointed out some serious short comings that are spread over Linux Distros and Windows XP with Thunderbird and enigmail/Openpgp installed. Fact. I am not angry - far from it - I got a lot of brain ache burning DVDs installing various Linux Distros and playing with them. I would have tested more - but hey - I pointed out the facts of my discovery. Now all my 3 Linux laptops are Mint Linux LXDE 32 bit installed with TB gpg 1.4.11 enigmail/Openpgp - No probs. Fact. But I still do not trust enigmail/openpgp to do anything on the tin. Fact. Now on the whole as no one's interested in these facts - I don't much care. I worry about sending an encrypted mail to some one's public key in case it does not work. It digitally signs e-mails - but I have no confidence no assurance of encrypting to a public key. My girlfriend who only sends me encrypted mail sometimes sends me encrypted mail that I cannot read. Why? The answer is very very simple - sometimes Openpgp/enigmail signs to your private key and not the person your e-mailing's public key. Fact. I'm not angry about that - why? Because the error does not happen all the time. Fact. All I do is repeat the facts. Get 50 variants of popular Linux distros KDE/Gnome?LXDE do not install gpg 1.4.11 just gpg2 TB Enigmail/Openpgp and have fun. David - -- “See the sanity of the man! No gods, no angels, no demons, no body. Nothing of the kind.Stern, sane,every brain-cell perfect and complete even at the moment of death. No delusion.” https://linuxcounter.net/user/512854.html - http://gbenet.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPvUroAAoJEOJpqm7flREx6c8H/21/QifwXOuHbj03rYFtJvkG cBHVSBvt+z3z8NBSPWPkzZDQY2tKqESTU3BbPtVv8qw5/GJkv3FUNQUVeoiXZSwp lbVeC+V36+nB9NWpLB8FuAxvggFfbrq4/+pnP+slHk9WSFtgX6Ow7D/GcPnOzC26 EQAYBb0+gimmPrrjbVjaS3sB6Qz0Y75a+ZEp+2lntr8Igna5V01R2sOfMzQFrvQF hiIgB5OcmfD0UbPyeWgshlYHtEOO8TR53sVaOBxnMqXMT4AEYCisMyAaSkJsGPU5 5o3rEEbKcDAMd7NHs8kkilw2qKhgYYTh3RKOKiHdkumD5MgwCl2n2hviXswiJIs= =2dcQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users