mobile GPG installation
David Shaw
dshaw@jabberwocky.com
Sun May 11 21:19:02 2003
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On Sun, May 11, 2003 at 03:22:56PM +0000, tk wrote:
> Burns wrote:
> >Change homedir (in the registry) to "A:\gpgsec" (trust file and
> >random seed file will be here from now on, along with your own
> >keypairs)
> ...
> >Somebody, let me know if I'm giving bad advice here.
>
> Only in the sense that (as per original poster's scenario)
> fiddling with the registry entries on the computer that belongs
> to someone else, who lets you look at your mail for a few
> minutes is a bad idea. We are still waiting for the good GPG
> creators to understand the very real need for a GPG variant
> that REQUIRES NO INSTALLATION, i.e., a program that is
> not "fused" to a particular "box", but only to an operating
> system and the medium it resides on (floppy, CD...).
gpg --homedir d:\whatever\you\like.
No registry.
David
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