From 96fdf4cf100db67a9ec283a7e50f2e94955819a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Werner Koch Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 17:32:44 +0000 Subject: Preparing 1.9.17 --- README | 41 +++++++++++------------------------------ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-) (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README index 7bb83f1f2..28637c1fb 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -3,16 +3,17 @@ Version 1.9.x -GnuPG 1.9 is the future version of GnuPG; it is based on the gnupg-1.3 +GnuPG 1.9 is the future version of GnuPG; it is based on some gnupg-1.3 code and the previous newpg package. It will eventually lead to a -GnuPG 2.0 release. Note that GnuPG 1.3 and 1.9 are not always in sync -and thus features and bug fixes done in 1.3 are not necessary +GnuPG 2.0 release. Note that GnuPG 1.4 and 1.9 are not always in sync +and thus features and bug fixes done in 1.4 are not necessary available in 1.9. You should use this GnuPG version if you want to use the gpg-agent or gpgsm (the S/MIME variant of gpg). Note that the gpg-agent is also -helpful when using the standard gpg versions (1.3.x as well as some of -the old 1.2.x). +helpful when using the standard gpg versions (1.4.x as well as some of +the old 1.2.x). There are no problems installing 1.4 and 1.9 +alongside; in act we suggest to do this. BUILD INSTRUCTIONS @@ -64,6 +65,9 @@ and options given below. See also the section `SMARTCARD INTRO'. COMMANDS ======== +See the info documentation ("info gnupg") for a full list of commands +and options. + gpgsm: ------ @@ -79,25 +83,6 @@ gpgsm: prepended before each block. -gpg2: (Note that these card commands are also available with gpg 1.3.x) ------ - ---card-status - - Show information pertaining smartcards implementing the OpenPGP - application. - ---change-pin - - Offers a menu to change the PIN of OpenPGP smartcards and to reset - the retry counters. - ---card-edit - - Offers a menu to change any data object on the card and to generate - the keys. - - OPTIONS ======= @@ -480,10 +465,8 @@ SMARTCARD INTRO =============== GPG, the OpenPGP part of GnuPG, supports the OpenPGP smartcard -(surprise!); see http://g10code.com/p-card.html. - -[Fixme: We need to explain this further] - +(surprise!); see http://g10code.com/p-card.html and +http://www.gnupg.org/documentation/howtos.html#GnuPG-cardHOWTO . GPGSM, the CMS (S/MIME) part of GnuPG, supports two kinds of smartcards. The most flexible way is to use PKCS#15 compliant cards, @@ -512,8 +495,6 @@ For selecting the driver, see the options of scdaemon. A useful debugging flag is "--debug 2048" showing the communication between scdaemon and the reader. -[fixme: write more stuff] - -- cgit v1.2.3