Re: GnuPG (win32) on a USB stick

2008-07-02 Thread Robert Earl Hazelett
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello John, I'm a 74 year old retired American writing to you from the island of Luzon in the Philippines. I live in a place called Baguio City. I blundered across an old message on the internet in which, among other things, you apparently

re: GnuPG (win32) on a USB stick

2008-07-02 Thread vedaal
Robert Earl Hazelett roberthazelett at gmail.com wrote on Wed Jul 2 10:29:18 CEST 2008 : I ask if that later model of GPG2GO is now available unfortunately, Maxine Brandt, the author of GPG2GO passed on ... i have copied and have been updating her site, here:

Re: GnuPG (win32) on a USB stick

2008-03-04 Thread Andrew Berg
John Clizbe wrote: Andrew Berg wrote: John Clizbe wrote: set GNUPGHOME=x:\location\you\want It would be inconvenient (and inconsiderate to the host machine's owner(s)) to set an environment variable on every machine encountered, wouldn't it? Sven's idea is much better, I

Re: GnuPG (win32) on a USB stick

2008-03-03 Thread Andrew Berg
John Clizbe wrote: set GNUPGHOME=x:\location\you\want It would be inconvenient (and inconsiderate to the host machine's owner(s)) to set an environment variable on every machine encountered, wouldn't it? Sven's idea is much better, I think.

re: GnuPG (win32) on a USB stick

2008-03-03 Thread vedaal
nunzky (funkdude at gmail.com) wrote on Mon Mar 3 02:57:20 CET 2008 : Is it possible to avoid this behavior and have GnuPG write those files, say, in its own dir on my usb stick? ... this would probably have to involve me keeping my private key on the usb stick, protected only by a

re: GnuPG (win32) on a USB stick // forgot a line, sorry // ;-((

2008-03-03 Thread vedaal
vedaal at hush.com (vedaal at hush.com) wrote on Mon Mar 3 17:11:46 CET 2008 : [5] open notepad and types these lines: command com z: cd gnupg sorry, forgot a line ;-(( it should be: set GNUPGHOME=z:\gnupg command com z: cd gnupg vedaal any ads or links below this message are added by

Re: GnuPG (win32) on a USB stick

2008-03-03 Thread John Clizbe
Andrew Berg wrote: John Clizbe wrote: set GNUPGHOME=x:\location\you\want It would be inconvenient (and inconsiderate to the host machine's owner(s)) to set an environment variable on every machine encountered, wouldn't it? Sven's idea is much better, I think. And it shows a clear

Re: GnuPG (win32) on a USB stick

2008-03-03 Thread nunzky
Thanks everyone of you, you have greatly enlightened me concerning the security risks associated with my endeavor. I will have to rethink my plans, but for now, I think John's idea of setting GNUPGHOME seems like the best idea to me. However, for convenience, I'd like to maybe use a batch file

re: GnuPG (win32) on a USB stick

2008-03-03 Thread vedaal
nunzky (funkdude at gmail.com) wrote on Tue Mar 4 00:02:02 CET 2008 : However, for convenience, I'd like to maybe use a batch file to set it and open a command prompt. This would require me to be able to set it to a relative path (ie, not have to specify a drive letter, as it will change). Is

Re: GnuPG (win32) on a USB stick

2008-03-03 Thread John W. Moore III
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 nunzky wrote: The last version of GPG2Go I could find is 1.4.1, which seems pretty outdated. My Bad. I shall Update the Binaries to 1.4.8 tonight and they should be available by this time tomorrow. I admit that I am abysmally slow as a

Re: GnuPG (win32) on a USB stick

2008-03-02 Thread Robert J. Hansen
nunzky wrote: Also, this would probably have to involve me keeping my private key on the usb stick, protected only by a passphrase. How secure is this? Are there any better ways to do it? As a rule of thumb, never do any sensitive computer operations on a computer you don't completely trust.

Re: GnuPG (win32) on a USB stick

2008-03-02 Thread John Clizbe
nunzky wrote: Hi, I want to keep GnuPG on a USB stick to use at school and on other people's computers (all windows). However, GPG, when run, creates the keyrings and conf files on the HDD (documents and settings\appdata). Is it possible to avoid this behavior and have GnuPG write those

Re: GnuPG (win32) on a USB stick

2008-03-02 Thread John W. Moore III
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 nunzky wrote: I want to keep GnuPG on a USB stick to use at school and on other people's computers (all windows). However, GPG, when run, creates the keyrings and conf files on the HDD (documents and settings\appdata). Is it possible to avoid

Re: GnuPG (win32) on a USB stick

2008-03-02 Thread Sven Radde
Hi! nunzky schrieb: However, GPG, when run, creates the keyrings and conf files on the HDD (documents and settings\appdata). Is it possible to avoid this behavior and have GnuPG write those files, say, in its own dir on my usb stick? How would I do this? Try using --homedir