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dhcalva at comcast

Feb 23, 2005, 7:57 AM

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Hey all,

I was wondering if there's any place on the web (or anywhere) that I can
find out all the parameters that can be used in the gpg.conf file and
their syntax. Especially parameters dealing with
cipher/hash/compression preferences.

Daev
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atom at smasher

Feb 23, 2005, 8:43 AM

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Re: gpg.conf [In reply to]

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On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, David Calvarese wrote:

> I was wondering if there's any place on the web (or anywhere) that I can
> find out all the parameters that can be used in the gpg.conf file and
> their syntax. Especially parameters dealing with
> cipher/hash/compression preferences.
================

it's all in the man page. just about all of the long options can be used
in the config file, just leave off the two leading dashes.

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zuxy.meng at gmail

Feb 23, 2005, 12:34 PM

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Re: gpg.conf [In reply to]

On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 09:57:38 -0500, David Calvarese <dhcalva [at] comcast> wrote:
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> Hey all,
>
> I was wondering if there's any place on the web (or anywhere) that I can
> find out all the parameters that can be used in the gpg.conf file and
> their syntax. Especially parameters dealing with
> cipher/hash/compression preferences.
>

My FC3 distro includes a vim syntax file for gpg.conf which might help.

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While truth is beauty.
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dshaw at jabberwocky

Feb 24, 2005, 3:15 PM

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Re: gpg.conf [In reply to]

On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 09:57:38AM -0500, David Calvarese wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I was wondering if there's any place on the web (or anywhere) that I can
> find out all the parameters that can be used in the gpg.conf file and
> their syntax. Especially parameters dealing with
> cipher/hash/compression preferences.

The man page gives all the options, but if someone is looking for a
nice project to do, a web page with each option and commentary would
be a great thing to point people to when they have questions.

David

dhcalva at comcast

Feb 24, 2005, 6:04 PM

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Re: gpg.conf [In reply to]

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David Shaw wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 09:57:38AM -0500, David Calvarese wrote:
>> Hey all,
>>
>> I was wondering if there's any place on the web (or anywhere) that I can
>> find out all the parameters that can be used in the gpg.conf file and
>> their syntax. Especially parameters dealing with
>> cipher/hash/compression preferences.
>
> The man page gives all the options, but if someone is looking for a
> nice project to do, a web page with each option and commentary would
> be a great thing to point people to when they have questions.

That would be great to have. In fact, that's about what I was looking
for. The man page is also a lot to slog through to find something. I'm
surprised there isn't a 'man gpg.conf' file like there is for a lot of
other programs.

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wk at gnupg

Feb 25, 2005, 2:18 AM

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Re: gpg.conf [In reply to]

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 17:15:26 -0500, David Shaw said:

> The man page gives all the options, but if someone is looking for a
> nice project to do, a web page with each option and commentary would
> be a great thing to point people to when they have questions.

Indeed. I'll ask the web people who we can do that the best way.

It would also be a nice project to enhance the outdated Gnu Privacy
Handbook.

Salam-Shalom,

Werner

lists at michel-messerschmidt

Nov 2, 2009, 3:09 AM

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Re: gpg.conf [In reply to]

On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 10:51:46AM -0000, David Gray wrote:
> Could anyone point me in the right direction for a manual/examples
> on how to edit the gpg.conf file for GnuPG 2.0.12 (GPG 4 Win)?

http://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg/Invoking-GPG.html#Invoking-GPG

Within this manual you'll find:
###
gpg.conf
This is the standard configuration file read by gpg2 on startup. It may contain any valid long option; the leading two dashes may not be entered and the option may not be abbreviated. This default name may be changed on the command line (see option –options). You should backup this file.
###

Valid options are listed in
http://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg/GPG-Options.html#GPG-Options

> I would like to see examples of how to add further keyrings

Use the "keyring" option:
--keyring file
Add file to the current list of keyrings. If file begins with a tilde and a slash, these are replaced by the $HOME directory. If the filename does not contain a slash, it is assumed to be in the GnuPG home directory ("~/.gnupg" if --homedir or $GNUPGHOME is not used).

Note that this adds a keyring to the current list. If the intent is to use the specified keyring alone, use --keyring along with --no-default-keyring.

HTH,
Michel

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David.Gray at turpin-distribution

Nov 2, 2009, 4:09 AM

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RE: gpg.conf [In reply to]

Hello John,

Thanks for the man page and skeleton file for gpg.conf, both very useful.

The main issue at the moment (thread: "No secret key under different account") is how
to access the keyring files under a different account. I'm looking for the
best (least duplication of data/settings ) solution to this and someone suggested
adding a reference to gpg.conf.

I've installed GPG under the 'Administrator' account but the C# executable
which runs GPG, will run from a SQL Server 2005 agent job, the account for this
is SQLService, therefore this account needs to see the keyrings owned by Administrator.

Apart from that it's good to see what else can be changed and the skeleton you sent me
is a good place to begin.

Regards
Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: John Clizbe [mailto:John [at] Mozilla-Enigmail]
Sent: 02 November 2009 11:41
To: David Gray
Subject: Re: gpg.conf

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David Gray wrote:
> Hi
> Could anyone point me in the right direction for a manual/examples on
> how to edit the gpg.conf file for GnuPG 2.0.12 (GPG 4 Win)?

For a server, I'd recommend GnuPG 1.4.10 - at least it comes with the man page Werner has said that gpg4win is more of a desktop application

> The pdf manual which gets installed with this kit contains no references
> and the readme only tells me that gpg.conf gets created during install.

Attached are the gpg man page as well as an (out-of-date, sorry) options.skel that explains a lot of the common options.

> I would like to see examples of how to add further keyrings but also
> it would be good to know what other options & features could be used
> if configured properly.

Perhaps if we knew exactly what it is you're trying to accomplish. There are many ways of sharing keyrings, which is best is difficult to say without more information.

If you'd like, you may email me directly

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John at Mozilla-Enigmail

Nov 2, 2009, 4:43 AM

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Re: gpg.conf [In reply to]

David Gray wrote:
> Hello John,
>
> Thanks for the man page and skeleton file for gpg.conf, both very useful.

Anytime

> The main issue at the moment (thread: "No secret key under different account") is how
> to access the keyring files under a different account. I'm looking for the
> best (least duplication of data/settings ) solution to this and someone suggested
> adding a reference to gpg.conf.

I think that was me :-)

> I've installed GPG under the 'Administrator' account but the C# executable
> which runs GPG, will run from a SQL Server 2005 agent job, the account for this
> is SQLService, therefore this account needs to see the keyrings owned by Administrator.

Ok, simple redirection. Same as relocating keys to portable media.

In SQLService's gpg.conf, something like:

no-default-keyring
keyring ..\..\..\Administrator\Applic~1\GnuPG\pubring.gpg
secret-keyring ..\..\..\Administrator\Applic~1\GnuPG\secring.gpg
trustdb-name ..\..\..\Administrator\Applic~1\GnuPG\trustdb.gpg

You'll need to also make sure SQLService has +R+W permissions to those files.

Alternatively, as David Shaw pointed out in the other thread, you may invoke
gpg/gpg2 with the --homedir option to point it to the directory containing
Administrator's keyring and conf files

> Apart from that it's good to see what else can be changed and the skeleton you sent me
> is a good place to begin.

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Nov 4, 2009, 3:43 AM

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RE: gpg.conf [In reply to]

Hi Michel,
Thanks for the information, most useful.

Regards
David

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Sent: 02 November 2009 11:10
To: gnupg-users [at] gnupg
Subject: Re: gpg.conf

On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 10:51:46AM -0000, David Gray wrote:
> Could anyone point me in the right direction for a manual/examples
> on how to edit the gpg.conf file for GnuPG 2.0.12 (GPG 4 Win)?

http://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg/Invoking-GPG.html#Invoking-GPG

Within this manual you'll find:
###
gpg.conf
This is the standard configuration file read by gpg2 on startup. It may contain any valid long option; the leading two dashes may not be entered and the option may not be abbreviated. This default name may be changed on the command line (see option –options). You should backup this file.
###

Valid options are listed in
http://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg/GPG-Options.html#GPG-Options

> I would like to see examples of how to add further keyrings

Use the "keyring" option:
--keyring file
Add file to the current list of keyrings. If file begins with a tilde and a slash, these are replaced by the $HOME directory. If the filename does not contain a slash, it is assumed to be in the GnuPG home directory ("~/.gnupg" if --homedir or $GNUPGHOME is not used).

Note that this adds a keyring to the current list. If the intent is to use the specified keyring alone, use --keyring along with --no-default-keyring.

HTH,
Michel

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