--- trunk/README 2005/11/02 08:32:55 50 +++ trunk/README 2006/03/06 14:41:58 180 @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ The Windows Privacy Tray - Version 0.5.5 + Index 1. Notice @@ -24,12 +24,10 @@ 13.2.4 Sign 13.2.5 Revoke cert 13.2.6 Check sigs - 13.2.7 List trust path 13.3 Keyserver 13.3.1 Keyserver searching 13.3.2 Proxy support 14. Debug mode - 15. Agent support 16. Features of the dialogs 16. Features of the dialogs @@ -38,16 +36,15 @@ --------- This is only a quick guide for WinPT. For the moment the program is its own -documentation. This is subject to change. Please note, this text needs many -improvements, because English isn't my native lanuage ;-(. Please feel free -to send me spelling corrections. +documentation. This is subject to change. 2. Bugs and improvements ------------------------ I have tried to thoroughly debug this program, but if you've found a bug, -please send me a message with a full error description! +please send me a message with a full error description or go directly +to http://wald.intevation.org and use the WinPT bug tracking system. Please include as much detail as possible including OS version, WinPT version, and GPG version in use. Please summarize your gpg configuration @@ -60,11 +57,10 @@ 3. What is WinPT? ----------------- -WinPT is a tool to protect your privacy! Because I'm NOT a crypto expert, -I use another program, the GNU Privacy Guard for the cryptographic -functionality. +WinPT is a front-end for the GNU Privacy Guard. It just provides +a convinient interface to GPG while GPG does the actual (cryptographic) work. -GnuPG was written by Werner Koch and is GNU Open Source. GnuPG contains all +GnuPG was written by Werner Koch and is Free Software. GnuPG contains all of the functions WinPT uses for data encrypting and e-signatures and key management. @@ -81,21 +77,13 @@ 4. Install ---------- -First you should install the GPG binary into C:\GNUPG (Version 1.0.5 or -later.) (If you want to use a directory other than C:\GNUPG you must modify +First you should install the GPG binary (Version 1.4.x or later.) +(If you want to use a directory other than the default you must modify the preferences in the WinPT program at Preferences->GPG Prefs. - -** GPG 1.0.5 is needed for WinPT but because of the security problem - with this version, it's recommend to use 1.0.6! ** - Next, download the WinPT binary package from the Internet. You can find the -latest WinPT version at http://www.winpt.org/download.html. Create a -directory and extract all WinPT releated files. - - -With the 0.5.0 version of WinPT, all modules are now integrated in -the main package. So you don't need the wipe-ext.dll or the ldap-ext.dll! +latest WinPT version at http://www.winpt.org. Create a directory and +extract all WinPT releated files. 4.1 Keyserver config file @@ -118,13 +106,14 @@ my OpenPGP public key. If you don't have it, please take a look at http://www.winpt.org/twoaday.asc -# gpg --verify WinPT-x.x.x-exe.zip.asc -# gpg --verify WinPT-x.x.x-src.zip.asc +# gpg --verify winpt-x.x.x-exe.zip.asc +# gpg --verify winpt-x.x.x-src.zip.asc gpg should output that the signature was correct and that the signature was created by me. -My key ID is 0xBF3DF9B4: 'Timo Schulz '. +My key ID is 0xBF3DF9B4: 'Timo Schulz ' or + 0x27F36D14: 'Timo Schulz (Laptop Key) 6. Native language support @@ -148,16 +137,7 @@ For the moment, WinPT supports these languages: - * Italian winpt-it.mo - * French winpt-fr.mo * German winpt-de.mo - * Spanish winpt-es.mo - * Russian winpt-ru.mo - * Portuguese (Brazilian) winpt-pt_BR.mo - * Portuguese winpt-pt_PT.mo - * Hungarian winpt-hu.mo - * Chinese winpt-zh_CN.mo - * Czech winpt-ch.mo If you are interested in translating WinPT in your native language, please let me know :-). It's not much work and you do NOT need to be a developer! @@ -177,7 +157,6 @@ General questions (look first at the topic point), can be sent to one of the mailing lists. All GnuPG lists are in English. -PGP User list (German) pgp-friends-de@egroups.com GPG User list (English) gnupg-users@gnupg.org GPG Developer list (English) gnupg-devel@gnupg.org @@ -190,14 +169,8 @@ If you want to get the latest information, reports, or discussions about WinPT you can subscribe to one of the WinPT mailing lists. There is a list -for users and one for developers. Both lists are in English! To subscribe -send a message to 'majordomo@lcsweb.net' with "subscribe listname" in the -body. - -Example: subscribe winpt-name_of_thelist - -winpt-dev@lcsweb.net - The developer list -winpt-users@lcsweb.net - The users list +for users and one for developers. All lists are in English! To subscribe +visit http://wald.intevation.org and go to the WinPT project site. Please, before you send a message to the list take a look at the FAQ or the README files. It's possible that your question is already answered @@ -219,7 +192,7 @@ Export Clipboard CTRL+ALT+x Import Clipboard CTRL+ALT+i -In the event of an error, it's possible that another program already uses +In case of an error, it's possible that another program already uses some of the hotkeys. WinPT will tell you which hotkey wasn't installed properly so it's easier to figure out which hotkey caused the problem. @@ -254,16 +227,15 @@ to use this feature, you only need to set the value to "0". -12.Default keyid for signing +12. Default keyid for signing ---------------------------- There are two ways to set the default keyid. The best solution is to -set the "default-key" entry in the GPG options file. Alternative you can -also use "encrypt-to" for the default keyid. +set the "default-key" entry in the GPG options file. The second solution is to let WinPT figure out it from the secret key cache, the first key in this cache is the default keyid. Warning, with this method -it's possible that another keyid is chosen (because of the order in which the keyring -was read!). +it's possible that another keyid is chosen (because of the order in +which the keyring was read!). 13. Commands @@ -318,12 +290,6 @@ Generate a revocation certificate for the chosen key. -13.2.6 List trust path ----------------------- - -TODO. - - 13.2.7 Check sigs ----------------- @@ -386,17 +352,6 @@ mode for your usual work; it slows down both GPG and WinPT. -15. Agent support ------------------ - -To use the Windows GPG Agent, you must start the process BEFORE running -WinPT. When there was no error, WinPT runs in a passphrase-less mode. All -passphrase requests are send to the client. As a result the sign and -sign & encrypt dialogs contain NO passphrase items! To force WinPT to use -the internal passphrase routines, you can use the "--no-agent" option on -the command line. - - 16. Features of the dialogs ----------------------------