Re: [Evolution] how many people actually use pgp over gpg, and why?

["John Weber" <jweber math cudenver edu>]

Hi,

I haven't used either GPG or PGP, but I may need to soon. I'll be
working in a M$ environment (I'll stick with linux/evolution, I hope).
My question is: What are the compatibility issues between the two? Are
they interchangeable? I notice the evo docs talk about GPG, but the
tools->Mail settings->Evolution account editor->Security tab has PGP. Is
GPG the open source implementation of PGP? The company has not yet
implemented any encryption and I'll be setting up the VPN and may end up
having some input which of PGP or GPG to use.

Any clarification is appreciated or point me to a good doc to read.

Thanks,
John


On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 18:04, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> I have just recently rewritten support for gnupg using the --status-fd
> and --command-fd options so that we get a more interactive gnupg session
> presented to the user.
>
> This means that when you decrypt a message, we will be able to prompt
> for a specific key rather than just saying "Please enter your GnuPG
> passphrase" which I know a number of people complained about (they had
> multiple keys).
>
> Unfortunately, pgp5 and pgp6 do not support these interfaces and in fact
> make it a bloody pain to use them at all. I've just recently discovered
> that pgp6 in batch mode will prompt for the passphrase on stdout if the
> passphrase sent to it's passphrase fd is invalid. This causes Evolution
> to hang indefinetely and there is no easy way to fix this.
>
> My feelings are that since Network Associates is no longer supporting
> their pgp software and because it is such a royal pain to work with in
> Evolution, that it is probably better if we remove support for it. If
> you are dead-set on using pgp5 or pgp6 and refuse to use gnupg, you
> should speak up now or I am going to remove support for them in
> Evolution 1.1.x. I would also like to know why you won't use gnupg.
>
> Jeff
>
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