GnuPG 1.1.90 released ('diskperf -y' )

[Keith Ray]

Quoting "Leigh S. Jones, KR6X" <kr6x@kr6x.com>:

> When 'diskperf -y' is enabled I no longer see that message
> on the WinNT and Win2K operating systems.  Does that 
> mean that on these two operating systems the calls do not
> fail?

Let me demonstrate:

C:\Downloads\gnupg-w32-1.1.90>diskperf

Physical Disk Performance counters on this system are currently set to start at
boot.

C:\Downloads\gnupg-w32-1.1.90>gpg --version
gpg (GnuPG) 1.1.90
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.

Home: P:/GnuPG
Supported algorithms:
Pubkey: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA, ELG
Cipher: 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH, DUMMY
Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160
Compress: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB

C:\Downloads\gnupg-w32-1.1.90>gpg --homedir . --gen-key
gpg (GnuPG) 1.1.90; Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.

gpg: NOTE: THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT VERSION!
gpg: It is only intended for test purposes and should NOT be
gpg: used in a production environment or with production keys!
Please select what kind of key you want:
   (1) DSA and ElGamal (default)
   (2) DSA (sign only)
   (5) RSA (sign only)
Your selection? 2
What keysize do you want? (1024)
Requested keysize is 1024 bits
Please specify how long the key should be valid.
         0 = key does not expire
      <n>  = key expires in n days
      <n>w = key expires in n weeks
      <n>m = key expires in n months
      <n>y = key expires in n years
Key is valid for? (0)
Key does not expire at all
Is this correct (y/n)? y

You need a User-ID to identify your key; the software constructs the user id
from Real Name, Comment and Email Address in this form:
    "Heinrich Heine (Der Dichter) <heinrichh@duesseldorf.de>"

Real name: Test DSA Key
Email address:
Comment:
You selected this USER-ID:
    "Test DSA Key"

Change (N)ame, (C)omment, (E)mail or (O)kay/(Q)uit? o
You need a Passphrase to protect your secret key.

You don't want a passphrase - this is probably a *bad* idea!
I will do it anyway.  You can change your passphrase at any time,
using this program with the option "--edit-key".

We need to generate a lot of random bytes. It is a good idea to perform
some other action (type on the keyboard, move the mouse, utilize the
disks) during the prime generation; this gives the random number
generator a better chance to gain enough entropy.
++++++++++++++++++++.+++++++++++++++++++++++++..++++++++++..+++++++++++++++.++++++++++++++++++++.++++++++++++++++++++.++++++++++++++
+++++++++++...............+++++
gpg: NOTE: you should run 'diskperf -y' to enable the disk statistics
gpg: NOTE: you should run 'diskperf -y' to enable the disk statistics
gpg: .\trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
public and secret key created and signed.
key marked as ultimately trusted.

pub  1024D/F011EB1F 2002-07-01 Test DSA Key
     Key fingerprint = A000 E909 9190 E97F 755B  3EA6 806B 85AD F011 EB1F

Note that this key cannot be used for encryption.  You may want to use
the command "--edit-key" to generate a secondary key for this purpose.