Re: GPG as a PGP replacement

[Michael Meskes <meskes@debian.org>]

On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 09:34:25PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> load-extension rsa
> load-extension idea
> keyring /usr/share/keyrings/debian-keyring.pgp
> keyring /usr/share/keyrings/debian-keyring.gpg
> keyring /home/jgg/.pgp/pubring.pgp
> secret-keyring /home/jgg/.pgp/secring.pgp

Okay, I did that after installing the latest version from non-US. Does it
make sense to also add the following?

keyring /home/meskes/.gnupg/pubring.gpg
secret-keyring /home/meskes/.gnupg/secring.gpg

> PGP 2.x compatible signatures can be generated using this command:
> 
>   gpg --rfc-1991 -a --clearsign foo.txt

This does not work. Despite the man page and the help text listing the
option --rfc-1991 gpg does not accept it.

> Sigs can be checked using 
>   cat foo.asc | gpgm
> 
> Much like PGP.. (gpgm is a version that does not need root privlage to
> lock memory)

gpgm is not available anymore. I don't have an idea whether this is by
design.

Michael
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