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GnuPG

GnuPG - 1.4.9

Install GnuPG without having to compile it.

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Current Version: 1.4.9
Release Date: 2009-03-24
License: Freeware
Downloads (this version): 1,797
Downloads (all versions): 30,935

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Product Description:

This archive contains a file that will install GnuPG binaries for Mac OS X. GnuPG is the GNU Privacy Guard, an OpenPGP client. It provides access to public key cryptography for use in encrypting and signing emails (or anything!). GnuPG is a command line tool and is licensed under the GNU GPL. After downloading the archive, please verify its validity with MD5 or the detached sig. If not, the file may have been tampered with and may not be secure.

Once you have GnuPG installed, visit the Mac GPG Website for GUI tools to avoid having to use the command line.

MD5 (GnuPG1.4.9.dmg) = 36d9eb482a98774521bfd7bb73e4ad06

What's new in this version:

  • Improved AES encryption performance by more than 20% (on ia32). Decryption is also a bit faster.
  • Fixed possible memory corruption bug in 1.4.8 while importing OpenPGP keys.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
  • Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

Additional Requirements:

  • BSD subsystem
  • GPGMail, GPGPreferences recommended

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GnuPG CommentaryNot yet Snow Leopard Ready - Version: 1.4.9, 9/20/2009 05:19PM PST

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zunipus
A new version of GPG that will be compatible with Snow Leopard is in development. Watch for it.

Also in the works is a new version of GPGMail that will work with Apple's Mail v4.x, the version that ships with Snow Leopard. However, GPGMail will only run when Apple Mail 4 is set (via Get Info) to run in 32 bit mode. Bleh. Apparently this is due to the age of the current code. A rewrite will be required to move it up to 64 bit compatibility and there is no schedule as to when that will happen. Bleh. But keep in mind this is Open Source freeware. Thank you to those who keep it up-to-date.

http://macgpg.sourceforge.net/

Meanwhile, PGP is NOT Snow Leopard ready either, but an update is also in the works:

http://blog.pgp.com/index.php/2009/08/sneak-peek-pgp-whole-disk-encryption-for-snow-leopard/
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GnuPG Reviewsucks - Version: 1.4.8, 2/10/2009 05:43PM PST

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plaintiger
i hate this crap that sits on versiontracker promising useful functionality and a GUI and turns out to be created for UNIX geeks. i've run two installers that have accomplished the following:

1) they've put several incomprehensible and incompatible/error-producing pieces of software on my machine, and

2) they've rendered Mail.app non-functional.

nothing else appears to have been achieved; certainly nothing i can understand (and i'm a Mac power user with 20+ years experience).

i'd like to uninstall the software; i hope i can figure out how to do so, but have not yet encountered the word "uninstall" in my perusal of the poorly-written and grossly incomplete documentation.

evidently there just is no user-friendly email security for the Mac. tried CryptoHeaven, but that's its own ugly email client; i don't want an email client; i have an email client. i just want to secure the messages i send and receive with the client i already have.

*sigh*

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GnuPG CommentaryObaervations - Version: 1.4.8, 1/19/2008 12:00AM PST

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gemigene1
Afterthought...

Phil Zimmermann "invented" PGP quite a few years ago and GnuPG will be celebrating their 11th anniversary soon. I wonder why in this age of "User Friendly, ready to run out of the box" software, there are still programs that demand quite a bit of technical expertise to install and run (command line or third-party interfaces to fill in the gap) and are still problematic to use. When are those people are going to come out of the "dark ages"?

I posted my original question on 4 forums to get as much feedback as possible from GnuPG users but to no avail. I assume that it isn't a very popular program.

Gene
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