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authorWerner Koch <[email protected]>2005-06-20 17:32:44 +0000
committerWerner Koch <[email protected]>2005-06-20 17:32:44 +0000
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Preparing 1.9.17V1-9-17
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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]
-