nunzky wrote:
Also, this would probably have to involve me keeping my private key on the
usb stick, protected only by a passphrase. How secure is this? Are there any
better ways to do it?
As a rule of thumb, never do any sensitive computer operations on a
computer you don't completely trust.
nunzky wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to keep GnuPG on a USB stick to use at school and on other people's
> computers (all windows). However, GPG, when run, creates the keyrings and
> conf files on the HDD (documents and settings\appdata). Is it possible to
> avoid this behavior and have GnuPG write thos
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nunzky wrote:
> I want to keep GnuPG on a USB stick to use at school and on other people's
> computers (all windows). However, GPG, when run, creates the keyrings and
> conf files on the HDD (documents and settings\appdata). Is it possible to
> avoi
Hi!
nunzky schrieb:
However, GPG, when run, creates the keyrings and
conf files on the HDD (documents and settings\appdata). Is it possible to
avoid this behavior and have GnuPG write those files, say, in its own dir on
my usb stick? How would I do this?
Try using "--homedir U:\path\to\your\k
John Clizbe wrote:
set GNUPGHOME=x:\location\you\want
It would be inconvenient (and inconsiderate to the host machine's
owner(s)) to set an environment variable on every machine encountered,
wouldn't it? Sven's idea is much better, I think.
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nunzky (funkdude at gmail.com)
wrote on Mon Mar 3 02:57:20 CET 2008 :
>Is it possible to avoid this behavior
>and have GnuPG write those files, say,
>in its own dir on my usb stick?
...
>this would probably have to involve
>me keeping my private key on the usb stick,
>protected only by a passp
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Personally, I am using GPGShell, which, once installed, has a
small app called Copy2USB that mounts a completely self-
contained GnuPG and GPGShell system on the stick, which I take
with me.
See http://www.jumaros.de/rsoft/index.html
Thanks,
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Andrew Berg wrote:
> John Clizbe wrote:
>> set GNUPGHOME=x:\location\you\want
>>
>
> It would be inconvenient (and inconsiderate to the host machine's
> owner(s)) to set an environment variable on every machine encountered,
> wouldn't it? Sven's idea is much better, I think.
And it shows a c
Thanks everyone of you, you have greatly enlightened me concerning the
security risks associated with my endeavor. I will have to rethink my plans,
but for now, I think John's idea of setting GNUPGHOME seems like the best
idea to me.
However, for convenience, I'd like to maybe use a batch file to
nunzky (funkdude at gmail.com)
wrote on Tue Mar 4 00:02:02 CET 2008 :
>However, for convenience,
>I'd like to maybe use a batch file to set it and
>open a command prompt.
>This would require me to be able to set it to a
relative path
>(ie, not have to specify a drive letter, as it will change).
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nunzky wrote:
> The last version of GPG2Go I could find is 1.4.1, which seems pretty
> outdated.
My Bad. I shall Update the Binaries to 1.4.8 tonight and they should be
available by this time tomorrow. I admit that I am abysmally slow as a
Mainta
John Clizbe wrote:
Andrew Berg wrote:
John Clizbe wrote:
set GNUPGHOME=x:\location\you\want
It would be inconvenient (and inconsiderate to the host machine's
owner(s)) to set an environment variable on every machine encountered,
wouldn't it? Sven's idea is much better, I think
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Hello John,
I'm a 74 year old retired American writing to you from the
island of Luzon in the Philippines. I live in a place called
Baguio City.
I blundered across an old message on the internet in which,
among other things, you apparently sai
Robert Earl Hazelett roberthazelett at gmail.com
wrote on Wed Jul 2 10:29:18 CEST 2008 :
>I ask if that later model of GPG2GO
>is now available
unfortunately, Maxine Brandt,
the author of GPG2GO
passed on ...
i have copied and have been updating her site, here:
http://www.angelfire.com/mb2/mbgpg
vedaal at hush.com (vedaal at hush.com)
wrote on Mon Mar 3 17:11:46 CET 2008 :
>[5] open notepad and types these lines:
>command com
>z:
>cd gnupg
sorry, forgot a line ;-((
it should be:
set GNUPGHOME=z:\gnupg
command com
z:
cd gnupg
vedaal
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