Win32 Binaries

[David Shaw]

On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 09:07:01PM +0000, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 06:55:24 -0500, Joel Konkle-Parker said:
> 
> > On gnupg.org, I see that the latest version to offer a win32 binary is
> > 1.0.6. On nullify.org, however, they offer win32 binaries for 1.0.7 and
> > 1.1.9.0. Are these official releases? Can I install these and still be
> > confident I got "true" gnupg? What is 1.1.9.0 if 1.0.7 is latest?
> 
> That is up to you, I can't decide.  I guess many folks are using it.
> 
> I don't known anything about a version 1.1.9.0 but we have a snapshot
> version 1.1.90 as binary available at
> 
> ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/alpha/binary/gnupg-w32-1.1.90.zip (975k).

It is also worth pointing out that 1.1.90 is a development release and
is really intended for testing.

It prints out:

  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!

on startup, but that can be missed if you are using a frontend of some
sort.

David

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