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GPGTools – OpenPGP Tools for Apple OS X

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Re: GPGTools – OpenPGP Tools for Apple OS X

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Post by gnaffle »

vsviridov wrote: post #4

Finally, with Lion support... Although I've since switched to Thunderbird/Enigmail, which works with older version just fine..

I did that, unfortunately the search feature in Thunderbird is just terrible compared to Mail.app (maybe there is a plugin I don't know about?)

Re: GPGTools – OpenPGP Tools for Apple OS X

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Post by breser »

For anyone wondering, this comes with GPG 2.0.19, 2.0.20 came out on May 10th 2013 with a security fix: http://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2012-6085/

I believe they've patched it in this release though: http://support.gpgtools.org/discussions/everything/4323-cve-...

It's disappointing that their release notes don't mention this.

Re: GPGTools – OpenPGP Tools for Apple OS X

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Post by hackerboos »

Aloisius wrote: post #9
hackerboos wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Run `brew doctor` after installing.

Ahhh. I rarely run brew doctor. Warnings aren't the worst things in the world though and I don't think it is unreasonable that they stick libs in /usr/local/lib.

I don't disagree but it does make it harder to debug other homebrew issues.

Re: GPGTools – OpenPGP Tools for Apple OS X

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Post by kgo »

gnaffle wrote: post #11
vsviridov wrote: post #4

Finally, with Lion support... Although I've since switched to Thunderbird/Enigmail, which works with older version just fine..

I did that, unfortunately the search feature in Thunderbird is just terrible compared to Mail.app (maybe there is a plugin I don't know about?)

If you're actually trying to encrypt email, you probably don't want your mail app building a search index in plain text.

Re: GPGTools – OpenPGP Tools for Apple OS X

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Post by gnaffle »

kgo wrote: post #15
gnaffle wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I did that, unfortunately the search feature in Thunderbird is just terrible compared to Mail.app (maybe there is a plugin I don't know about?)

If you're actually trying to encrypt email, you probably don't want your mail app building a search index in plain text.

Just getting a working subject / from / to search would be great. That said, my primary purpose with GPG is securing the emails in transit, not on my laptop. I already use disk encryption and most of the documents I send are stored unencrypted on that disk as well. The kind of people that would break into my computer would most likely just install a keylogger to get my GPG key rather than look for plain text indexes.

Re: GPGTools – OpenPGP Tools for Apple OS X

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Post by rosser »

izietto wrote: post #17

What is the difference between GPG and PGP?

GPG is the FSF's implementation of the OpenPGP spec. PGP was the original implementation upon which the spec is based, and is now the name of a company, owned by Symantec, that makes a commercial version of the software, and some related tools.

Re: GPGTools – OpenPGP Tools for Apple OS X

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Post by modoc »

kgo wrote: post #15
gnaffle wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I did that, unfortunately the search feature in Thunderbird is just terrible compared to Mail.app (maybe there is a plugin I don't know about?)

If you're actually trying to encrypt email, you probably don't want your mail app building a search index in plain text.

Depends if you're primary concerned with transit, vs local storage.
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