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
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