Testing GPG EMail encryption

[Mark H. Wood]

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 09:39:04PM +0100, david at gbenet.com wrote:

> I ran the debugging programme with Openpgp debugging options to
> console and I got the message that with gpg2 installed one was not
> able to digitally sign an e-mail whilst encrypting to their public
> key which in all the named distros it encrypted to my private key -
> fact.

I have no idea how a debugger would know that you couldn't sign an email.

> It is a fact that Openpgp will only work if BOTH gpg 1.4.11 and the
> widget gpg2 is then added. Fact. Most Linux users have BOTH by
> default. Fact. That's why no one's reporting aany problems. Fact. If
> you remove from your system gpg 1.4.11 then you have real problems
> with open Openpgp - even Kleopatra. Fact

On my Gentoo system, there is no gpg v1 installed:

mwood at mhw ~ $ dir /usr/bin/gpg*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      4 Sep 15  2011 /usr/bin/gpg -> gpg2
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 699072 Jun 29  2011 /usr/bin/gpg2
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 268352 Jun 29  2011 /usr/bin/gpg-agent
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 130720 Jun 29  2011 /usr/bin/gpgconf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 142736 Jun 29  2011 /usr/bin/gpg-connect-agent
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  50627 Apr  2 15:28 /usr/bin/gpgdir
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    205 Jun 30  2011 /usr/bin/gpgen
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  18448 Sep 21  2011 /usr/bin/gpg-error
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   1804 Sep 21  2011 /usr/bin/gpg-error-config
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   8990 Apr  2 15:28 /usr/bin/gpg-key2ps
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  39320 Jun 29  2011 /usr/bin/gpgkey2ssh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   4005 Apr  2 15:28 /usr/bin/gpglist
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   2750 Apr  2 15:28 /usr/bin/gpg-mailkeys
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   3521 Jan 11 09:14 /usr/bin/gpgme-config
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  26864 Jun 29  2011 /usr/bin/gpgparsemail
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   1708 Apr  2 15:28 /usr/bin/gpgparticipants
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  13830 Apr  2 15:28 /usr/bin/gpgsigs
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 382016 Jun 29  2011 /usr/bin/gpgsm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   4635 Jun 29  2011 /usr/bin/gpgsm-gencert.sh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      5 Sep 15  2011 /usr/bin/gpgv -> gpgv2
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 327504 Jun 29  2011 /usr/bin/gpgv2
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  22760 Apr  2 15:28 /usr/bin/gpgwrap
mwood at mhw ~ $ gpg --version
gpg (GnuPG) 2.0.17
libgcrypt 1.4.6
Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

As you can see, 'gpg' and 'gpgv' are symlinks to the v2 programs.

Nevertheless, I just sent a signed message to myself at another
address, from Thunderbird, using Enigmail.  It arrived signed, with a
valid signature.  Thunderbird + Enigmail + gpg2 works.  You should
consider the possibility that you have a different problem.

-- 
Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer   mwood at IUPUI.Edu
Asking whether markets are efficient is like asking whether people are smart.
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