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authorWerner Koch <[email protected]>2006-11-11 14:17:09 +0000
committerWerner Koch <[email protected]>2006-11-11 14:17:09 +0000
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@node Installation
@chapter A short installation guide.
+
+Unfortunately the installation guide has not been finished in time.
+Instead of delaying the release of GnuPG 2.0 even further, I decided to
+release without that guide. The chapter on gpg-agent and gpgsm do
+include brief information on how to set up the whole thing. Please
+watch the GnuPG website for updates of the documentation. In the
+meantime you may search the GnuPG mailing list archives or ask on the
+gnupg-users mailing listsfor advise on how to solve problems or how to
+get that whole thing up and running.
+
+Such questions may also help to write a proper installation guide.
+
[to be written]
-Tell how to setup the system, install certificates, how dirmngr relates
+
+XXX Tell how to setup the system, install certificates, how dirmngr relates
to GnuPG etc.
** Explain how to setup a root CA key as trusted
X.509 is based on a hierarchical key infrastructure. At the root of the
tree a trusted anchor (root certificate) is required. There are usually
-no other means of verfying whether this root certificate is trutsworthy
+no other means of verifying whether this root certificate is trustworthy
than looking it up in a list. GnuPG uses a file (@file{trustlist.txt})
to keep track of all root certificates it knows about. There are 3 ways
to get certificates into this list:
@@ -43,10 +56,12 @@ XXX decribe how to maintain trustlist.txt and /etc/gnupg/trustlist.txt.
** How to get the ssh support running
- How to use the ssh support.
+
+XXX How to use the ssh support.
@section Installation Overview
+XXXX