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About Gpg4kde

-Gpg4kde describes maintained installation packages for email and file -encryption for GNU/Linux and other unix-like operating systems. +Gpg4kde describes a maintained combination of software components +for email and file encryption for GNU/Linux and similiar operating systems.

-Both relevant cryptographic standards OpenPGP and S/MIME are fully -supported, especially the german -Sphinx -specification for V-PKI. -

+Both relevant cryptographic standards OpenPGP and S/MIME +are supported. -

-All components that together form Gpg4kde (basically -GnuPG and parts of -KDE) are Free Software. -

- -

Revision

+Notably Gpg4kde was found to be compatible to the German +Sphinx specification +for a governmental PKI in the early 2000s.

-The predecessor of Gpg4kde was -Ägypten-2 -which aimed at establishing all basic functionalities. -

+All of Gpg4kde is licensed as Free Software. +(The main components are +GnuPG and +KMail.) -

Gpg4kde 3.0

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History

-Version 3.0 is based on KDE 3.5 and covers all current version of -the GnuPG crypto components. -

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-Compared to the official releases of KDE 3.5, the packages -of Gpg4kde contain slightly improved versions of the email -program and of the certificate manager. -These improvements usually are merged into the next release -of the KDE 3.5 series. -

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Download / Installation

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Gpg4kde 3.0 on Debian "Lenny"

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-For Debian "Lenny" 5.0 Gpg4kde is available via the KDE Enterprise 3.5 -packages. -

+Gpg4kde version 3.0 was based on Kontact/KMail 3.5 'enterprise'. +It contained a few stability improvements which were later +merged with upstream at KDE.

-For installation, extend the file /etc/apt/source.list -with this line: -

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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
-# apt-get dist-upgrade -
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Documentation

- -After the installation you have this documentation available -that help to use Gpg4kde: - - +The predecessor of Gpg4kde was +Ägypten-2 +which aimed at establishing all basic functionalities.

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