GnuPG 1.0.6 patch for Cygwin

Symeon fcn@sub.noon.org.NOSPAM
Thu Jun 14 20:49:01 2001


Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> writes:

> Do not do this; you MUST use rndw32 as /dev/random doesn't provide
> secure random numbers under Cygwin.
Thanks; evaluating the Cygwin /dev/random output was on my "to do" list. I would have thought it could be implemented as well as rndw32 or egd; perhaps it will be improved in the future.
> Forget about Tiger - it is never used except for gpg --print-mds
Yeah, I was wondering about why one would use it; but "it was there," so what the hell.
> symeon> Fails 3 of 25 "make check" tests:
> symeon> encryptp.test
> symeon> armencryptp.test
> symeon> multisig.test
>
> Probably due to warnings present in the output and piped to the
> decryption process.
Evaluating the failures is also on my "to do" list. Thanks for the comments! /Symeon ===================================================================
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