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<h2>About Gpg4kde</h2> |
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Gpg4kde describes maintained installation packages for email and file |
Gpg4kde describes a maintained combination of software components |
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encryption for GNU/Linux and other unix-like operating systems. |
for email and file encryption for GNU/Linux and similiar operating systems. |
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Both relevant cryptographic standards OpenPGP and S/MIME are fully |
Both relevant cryptographic standards OpenPGP and S/MIME |
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supported, especially the german |
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<a href="http://www.bsi.de/fachthem/verwpki/sphinx/index.htm">Sphinx</a> |
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specification for V-PKI. |
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Notably Gpg4kde was found to be compatible to the German |
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All components that together form Gpg4kde (basically |
<a href="https://www.bsi.bund.de/DE/Themen/DigitaleGesellschaft/EGovernment/VerwaltungsPKIVPKI/SPHINX/sphinx_node.html">Sphinx</a> specification |
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<a href="http://www.gnupg.org">GnuPG</a> and parts of |
for a governmental PKI in the early 2000s. |
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<a href="http://www.kde.org">KDE</a>) are Free Software. |
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The predecessor of Gpg4kde was |
All of Gpg4kde is licensed as Free Software. |
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<a href="http://www.gnupg.org/aegypten2/index.html">Ägypten-2</a> |
(The main components are |
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which aimed at establishing all basic functionalities. |
<a href="https://www.gnupg.org">GnuPG</a> and |
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<a href="https://kontact.kde.org/components/kmail.html">KMail</a>.) |
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<h3>Gpg4kde 3.0</h3> |
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Version 3.0 is based on KDE 3.5 and covers all current version of |
Gpg4kde version 3.0 was based on Kontact/KMail 3.5 'enterprise'. |
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the GnuPG crypto components. |
It contained a few stability improvements which were later |
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merged with upstream at KDE. |
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Compared to the official releases of KDE 3.5, the packages |
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of Gpg4kde contain slightly improved versions of the email |
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program and of the certificate manager. |
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These improvements usually are merged into the next release |
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of the KDE 3.5 series. |
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<h3>Gpg4kde 3.0 on Debian "Lenny"</h3> |
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For Debian "Lenny" 5.0 Gpg4kde is available via the KDE Enterprise 3.5 |
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packages. |
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For installation, extend the file <code>/etc/apt/source.list</code> |
The predecessor of Gpg4kde was |
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<a href="http://www.gnupg.org/aegypten2/index.html">Ägypten-2</a> |
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which aimed at establishing all basic functionalities. |
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deb http://files.kolab.org/apt/releases/ lenny unstable |
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and then install: |
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# apt-get update<br> |
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# apt-get dist-upgrade |
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<h2>Documentation</h2> |
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After the installation you have this documentation available |
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that help to use Gpg4kde: |
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<li> The KMail manual (via respective menu item) |
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<li> Das Kleopatra Handbuch (via respective menu item) |
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<li> GnuPG Documentation (in Web-Browser via <code>info:gnupg2</code>) |
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<li> DirMngr Dokumentation (in Web-Browser via <code>info:dirmngr</code>) |
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<h2>About this Site</h2> |
<h2>About this Site</h2> |