path defaults for gpg.conf

[Doug Barton]

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On 01/31/2013 10:43 PM, Olav Seyfarth wrote:
| Hello, John.
|
|> Is that about right, then?
|
| Yes.
|
|> Would it not be true that gpg.exe would finally look in its own current
|> directory, which should suffice consequently for this purpose?

You can configure GNUPGHOME to be anything you wish.

| That's an authors' decision. I'm fine with it. It gives you many means to
| control your environment - and for security products I prefer NOT to
include
| the 'current dir' default.

In what way does not including the directory where the exe is located
increase security?

Doug

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