kmail doesn t sign/encrypt e-mails, broken pipe

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 01:19:18PM +0100, Erik Wasser wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 November 2004 12:01, Werner Koch wrote:

> > > Both can't be imported in my gpg-1.9.10: 'no valid user IDs'.
> >
> > Ah well, you should not use gpg2 (the OpenPGP part of GnuPG 1.9).  It
> > is way behind the development of decent gpg 1.2.x or 1.3.x.
> 
> Can you tell me something about the different parts? 
> 
> gnupg-1.2.6 is the stable version.

Ready for production use.
Conservative updates only.

> gnupg-1.3.92 is the unstable version (what's new in this branch?)

To become 1.4.0 eventually.
(Werner know more about the differences, you can see much
in reading the announcements archive
http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/)

> gnupg-1.9.10 is another unstable version (what's different in this 
> branch?

It merged gpgsm (doing smime) and gpg.

> gpgme-1.0.1 is a interoperability library for kmail vs. gpg, right?

Almost. ;)
	
http://www.gnupg.org/(en)/related_software/gpgme/index.html
	GnuPG Made Easy (GPGME) is a library designed to make access
	to GnuPG easier for applications. It provides a High-Level Crypto
	API for encryption, decryption, signing, signature verification and
	key management.

It can use gpg 1.9.x and thus provide crypto operations
needed for S/MIME and OpenPGP.

> I want to use GPG for securing my mails including the attachements. So I 
> can't use the deprecated "inline OpenPGP" method.

That is correct, do not use it.

> I've found the Aegypten2 project page[1] and the requirements are: gnupg 
> (>= 1.9.10). Or is that the requirement only for the SMIME standard?

It is for S/MIME.


> > Please install gnupg-1.3.92 - if coexists without problems with gnupg
> > 1.9.x (at least with the latest one).  There is a reason why it is
> > called gpg2 and not gpg in 1.9.
> 
> Thanks. After installing I made some softlinks[2] but now everything 
> seems fine. I'm now waiting for a feedback of my crypted mail.

> [1]Using OpenPGP and PGP/MIME with KMail: 
> http://kmail.kde.org/kmail-pgpmime-howto.html
> 
> [2]
> ln -s to /usr/local/gnupg-1.3.92/bin/gpg /usr/bin/gpg
> ln -s to /usr/local/gnupg-1.3.92/bin/gpg /usr/bin/gpg2

You do not need the link to gpg2.
gnupg1.9.x builds gpg2 just so it can coexist.
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