Hi Elless-- On Mon 2015-05-04 16:08:26 -0400, Elless wrote:
> The following email was originally intended for the makers of Gpg4win, > but since their software and site lacks a single professional target for > software problems, and my initial and primary intention with the > software was the verification of the Tails Windows download, I have > emailed it to yourselves. I have already emailed the Tor project > regarding implementation and documentation issues I enountered using > Tor, primarily centering on the Open PGP implementation being touted > widely for Windows. The Gpg4win Wiki also appears useless to me, and the > forum is labyrinthine and problematic. I understand your frustration with the gpg4win public documentation. It would be better if it were simplified. Nonetheless, your e-mail message is probably better sent to the gpg4win mailing list: [email protected] because the folks there can probably help you more directly. > Can you provide any clarity in this regard? I would like to be able to > verify checksums, regardless of any requirement to use Open PGP certs, > which present far more problems (again, primarily due to documentation). > Tails provides a sha256sum, but I have not been able to generate one to > date (sha1sums work fine in Kleopatra, as far as I can see). Even if you > cannot or do not wish to provide advice, the problem should be noted and > passed on, since you advise use of Gpg4win and provide a sha256sum for > the Windows download, technically problematic if such users cannot > generate sha256sums. If you have gpg4win installed (or any other gpg implementation), you can always generate a checksum for the file named "foo.zip" from the command line like this: gpg --print-mds foo.zip hth, --dkg _______________________________________________ Tails-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to [email protected].
