>Message: 1 >Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 12:02:10 -0700 >From: "S. Stacey Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Total n00b asking for help >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > >Hello, > >I am trying to install GnuPG to use with Thunderbird 0.9. I read the >instructions at http://enigmail.mozdev.org/gpgconf.html#win32, but >honestly, I am lost. I am no coder, but am intermediate "user". >Basically, I know enough to know what I don't know. > >Any help would be greatly appreciated, though I ask you don't assume I >have too much of a clue. >I am most confused about what exactly I need to download as several >files are mentioned at enigmail.mozdev.org. > >I thank you in advance for your assistance. > >Peace, > >Stacey >aka Emily Nelfnoffen
Okay, here are the instructions: First, this web page MAY be a little bit outdated. I will note any deviations for 1.4.1 if I see them. http://enigmail.mozdev.org/gpgconf.html#win32 DOWNLOADING & INTEGRITY CHECKS: =============================== I am assuming you are from an English speaking area, and worse yet, that you are in the United States. If not, go back to the starting web page: http://gnupg.org/ and pick your language. Then go to the mirrors and get ready to download. For English & the United States: http://www.gnupg.org/(en)/download/mirrors.html The United States: http://mirrors.rootmode.com/ftp.gnupg.org/ Go into the binary directory: http://mirrors.rootmode.com/ftp.gnupg.org/binary/ Download the following files: gnupg-w32cli-1.4.1.exe libiconv-1.9.1.dll.zip sha1sum.exe and optionally these: gnupg-w32cli-1.4.1.exe.sig libiconv-1.9.1.dll.zip.sig sha1sum.exe.sig Once GnuPG is installed and working, and you have added Werner Koch's public key to your key ring, you could verify that all of the above are okay by typing (IN a Command Prompt INSIDE a folder where both the gnupg-w32cli-1.4.1.exe and the gnupg-w32cli-1.4.1.exe.sig files are) for the installer of GnuPG: gpg --verify gnupg-w32cli-1.4.1.exe.sig I just checked all of them this way, and every one of them are okay, but you can't do that right now (chicken versus the egg problem), so they have kindly provided a sha1sum check sum program that you can check the integrity: sha1sum sha1sum.exe 4a578ecd09a2d0c8431bdd8cf3d5c5f3ddcddfc9 sha1sum.exe sha1sum gnupg-w32cli-1.4.1.exe db573a6c3707f65797b569efda7e0905c4c4469c gnupg-w32cli-1.4.1.exe The SHA1 check sums can be found here: http://www.gnupg.org/(en)/download/integrity_check.html INSTALLING GNUPG: ================= I am going to make another assumption, and that is that you are using Home XP with the default C: system disk. For Windows 2000 / NT / XP Pro, substitute C:\WINNT for C:\Windows. If you have a different SYSTEM drive, substitute accordingly. [1] Double click on the gnupg-w32cli-1.4.1.exe file and take the defaults for the install. The web page is wrong on steps 3 and 4. The install does all of it for you now. [1a] (optional) I copy the *.exe and *.dll files from the C:\Program Files\GNU\GnuPG to C:\Windows. If you do this just remember that each time you reinstall do the same thing each time. If not, then add GnuPG to your PATH environment variable as the Mozilla page outlines in step 5. [2] If you don't have it already, create the folder: C:\Documents and Settings\YOURNAME\Application Data\GnuPG Actually, GnuPG should create it for you. You should substitute YOUR user name for "YOURNAME." [3] Edit the attached gnupg_bob.reg file. Every place it says "bob", replace it with YOUR user name. Then double click on the file to enter the registry entries. I just automated step 6 somewhat, but REALIZE THAT THE PATH TO THE EXECUTABLES HAS CHANGED! [4] To create your keys, Start a Command Prompt, and in it type "gpg --gen-key". Take the default key size, BUT MAKE YOUR KEY EXPIRE IN ONE YEAR! The keys should be in the folder you created in Step 2. You can find more on doing this some place OTHER than this short instruction list. PICK YOUR PASS PHRASE CAREFULLY! It should be easy for you to remember, and hard for others to guess. [5] Since you may forget your pass phrase, you need to generate a revocation key. To do this type: gpg --list-keys REM Find your KEYID, or use your mail account name. gpg -a --gen-revoke > YOURNAME_rev.asc [6] If GnuPG didn't create a gpg.conf file for you, then do it per the instructions on the Mozilla web instruction list. [7] copy the secring.gpg and pubring.gpg files and your REVOKE key off and store them some place safe. If you need to revoke your public key at a later date, you will need to --import the revocation, and submit that to a keyserver (IF YOU SUBMIT IT TO A KEYSERVER). There are some good tips on the web page. I just provided a bridge to the new way of doing things with GPG 1.4.1, since they bundled everything into one install package, and you don't have to do anything except verify, then point and double click - mostly. Integrating GnuPG into ThunderBird: =================================== Just follow the steps at: http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ http://enigmail.mozdev.org/download.html It seems fairly easy for me to do. It is a lot easier than the struggling I did to get it shoehorned into Outlook Express. It works much better as well. Now somebody else is going to have to tell you how to make Norton Anti-Virus to stop marking encrypted messages as SPAM just because it can't make sense out of them. I don't mind Norton scanning for viruses / worms, but it is the responsibility of them to look for the PGP and GnuPG and other OpenPGP compliant messages to realize what they are without me saying ANYTHING. HHH -- Key Name: "Henry Hertz Hobbit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pub 1024D/1CC23BC0 2005-03-08 [expires: 2006-03-08] Key fingerprint = 9CD0 839E 79C9 5E20 B97A 15A6 9AB7 484D 1CC2 3BC0 __________________________________________________________________ Switch to Netscape Internet Service. As low as $9.95 a month -- Sign up today at http://isp.netscape.com/register Netscape. Just the Net You Need. New! Netscape Toolbar for Internet Explorer Search from anywhere on the Web and block those annoying pop-ups. Download now at http://channels.netscape.com/ns/search/install.jsp
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