M$ Outlook - Plugin for GPG?

[David R. Bergstein]

The key management tool in G-DATA is GPA, but unfortunatetly the v0.91
plugin seems to be linked to an older version of GnuPG (1.04 AFIK).  This
fails to work properly for me w/Outlook 2000.  Here is a discussion thread I
recently posted to on the WinPT users list.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-winpt-users@lcsweb.net
[mailto:owner-winpt-users@lcsweb.net]On Behalf Of David R. Bergstein
Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2001 4:29 PM
To: Timo Schulz
Cc: WinPT Users
Subject: Update on G-DATA Plugin [RE: WinPT Users: Announcement for
GPGOE 0.2.0]


-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

It turns out that the WinPT conflict was due to a registry change made
by the G-DATA plug-in installation program (path to GnuPG
executable).  Some other issues with G-DATA include the fact that the
encryption button in the plug-in does not work, and the gpg_gpa
executable that it requires is an obsolete version of GnuPG (v1.04).

I guess I answered my own questions.  :-)

David R. Bergstein
Systems Engineer and Blues Musician -
http://members.home.net/dbergstein/
Heart of Blue - bookings on-line at http://www.heartofblue.com
OpenPGP Public Key 0x56A3E687 - For info see http://www.gnupg.org
Key fingerprint = 3756 CCF2 8D82 ADDE 61F2  2A5A 2CEB EB09 56A3 E687

- -----Original Message-----
From: David R. Bergstein [mailto:dbergstein@home.com]
Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2001 3:23 PM
To: Timo Schulz
Cc: WinPT Users
Subject: G-DATA Plugin [RE: WinPT Users: Announcement for GPGOE
0.2.0]


Timo,

Here's my second try on a test message using the G-DATA plugin (sign
on send).  Sorry about the first note that got sent out - I
accidently pressed send without meaning to. :-)

Please let me know if the signature on this verifies correctly.

Two peculiar problems occurred, however:

1) I can no longer load WinPT 0.5.0 - perhaps an environment variable
or registry key is at fault?  This is my current path
%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;c:\gnupg
{this may be an interoperability issue between WinPT and the G-DATA
plugin)

2) I had to delete two old secret keys that I revoked before it
worked.  It appears that the G-DATA OL plugin uses a Win32 port of
GPA, and even if I delete the old keys and reimport them, the one
with the oldest date seems to show up as the default key.  (recognize
this is not a WinPT issue per se)

3) G-DATA plugin seems a bit sluggish while awaiting the passphrase
dialog, about a 40 second delay is incurred. (again not a WinPT
issue)

For the curious, this Outlook plugin is at
http://www3.gdata.de/gpg/download.html.

Thanks,

- - - David

David R. Bergstein
Systems Engineer and Blues Musician -
http://members.home.net/dbergstein/
Heart of Blue - bookings on-line at http://www.heartofblue.com
OpenPGP Public Key 0x56A3E687 - For info see http://www.gnupg.org
Key fingerprint = 3756 CCF2 8D82 ADDE 61F2  2A5A 2CEB EB09 56A3 E687

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