Good Morning--
I'm looking to shore up security in my system and with communications. Can you point me to the proper version of GnuPG for CentOS 5.3 (Final)?
Thanks, Dick
Dick Roth wrote:
Good Morning--
I'm looking to shore up security in my system and with communications. Can you point me to the proper version of GnuPG for CentOS 5.3 (Final)?
From my fully patched box:-
2.6.18-128.4.1.el5[root@www CentosIKEL]# yum info gnupg Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile Excluding Packages from CentOS-5 - Base Finished Excluding Packages from CentOS-5 - Updates Finished 1193 packages excluded due to repository priority protections Installed Packages Name : gnupg Arch : i386 Version : 1.4.5 Release : 14 Size : 4.5 M Repo : installed Summary : A GNU utility for secure communication and data storage. URL : http://www.gnupg.org/ License : GPL Description: GnuPG (GNU Privacy Guard) is a GNU utility for encrypting data and creating digital signatures. GnuPG has advanced key : management capabilities and is compliant with the proposed OpenPGP Internet standard described in RFC2440. Since GnuPG doesn't : use any patented algorithm, it is not compatible with any version of PGP2 (PGP2.x uses only IDEA for symmetric-key encryption, : which is patented worldwide).
Thanks, Dick
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Good Morning--
I'm looking to shore up security in my system and with communications. Can you point me to the proper version of GnuPG for CentOS 5.3 (Final)?
root@mach003 ~/ [0]# yum list gnupg* [...] Installed Packages gnupg.i386 1.4.5-14 installed Available Packages gnupg2.i386 2.0.9-1.el5 epel
The 1.4.5-14-version is the default installed AFAIK. If you want something newer you'll have to look further, eg to the epel repo.
IMO the default install of gpg is good enough. Remember, you break it, you get to keep the pieces.
Is this for use with Evolution or Thinderbird?