GnuPG 1.0.6 patch for Cygwin
Werner Koch
wk@gnupg.org
Thu Jun 14 13:31:01 2001
|| On 13 Jun 2001 20:56:51 -0700
|| Symeon <fcn@sub.noon.org.NOSPAM> wrote:
symeon> This patch alters GnuPG 1.0.6 to compile cleanly under Cygwin. It
symeon> uses /dev/random ("rndlinux"), but does not support dynamic loading.
Do not do this; you MUST use rndw32 as /dev/random doesn't provide
secure random numbers under Cygwin. Without a sound random number
generator you MAY LEAK YOUR SECRET KEY!
symeon> The tiger module is statically linked.
Forget about Tiger - it is never used except for gpg --print-mds
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.
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