MacGPG2

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Version 2.0.17-9

14. February 2011

Requires OS X>=10.5/Intel
(get old PPC release: 2.0.16)

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Overview

MacGPG2 is an open source Mac OS X port of GnuPG. The project aims at making GnuPG easy to install, provide a native Mac OS X pinentry utility and interact with existing GnuPG tools for Mac OS X.



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Release Notes

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Version 2.0.17-9 (14. February 2011).

  • Issue 21: added missing gpg-agent patch.
  • Issue 24: fixing invalid gpg.conf files.
  • Issue 30: Patch to facilitate IDEA support; requires alternative encryption library (NOT INCLUDED).
  • Issue 32: fixing permissions.
  • Issue 33: fixing incorrect options in gpg-agent.conf.
  • Issue 40: fixing unusable secret keys on 32-bit machines.
  • Checksum: 6fc707319cd6f26fbc902aeec90939ac13aef7f3 (SHA-1).

Version 2.0.17-6 (25. January 2011).

  • Tiger and PPC chips no longer supported.
  • v2.0.16 will be deleted from your system.
  • You may need to change the file path for gpg2 to /usr/local/MacGPG2/bin/gpg2.
  • Removal now as simple as 'sudo rm -fr /usr/local/MacGPG2'.
  • Core upgraded to GnuPG v2.0.17.
  • Configured to use standard socket and daemonise gpg agent on the fly if required.
  • Maximum key size increased to 8192 bits; recommended for expert users only.
  • Includes GPGTools gpg-agent cache-id option patch.
  • Installs exclusively under /usr/local/MacGPG2/ removing previous v2.0.16 install.
  • Creates default gpg configuration file if none exists.
  • Libksba upgraded to v1.1.0.
  • Libusb upgraded to v1.0.8.

Version 2.0.16 (31. October 2010).

  • Last version to support PPC and MacOSX Tiger.
  • Maximum key size increased to 8192 bits; recommended for expert users only.
  • Core upgraded to GnuPG v2.0.16.
  • Configured to use standard socket and daemonise gpg agent on the fly if required.
  • Libassuan upgraded to v2.0.2-svn389.
  • Libgpg-error updated to v1.9.
  • Libgcrypt updated to v1.4.6.
  • If the agent's --use-standard-socket option is active, all tools try to start and daemonize the agent on the fly. In the past this was only supported on W32; on non-W32 systems the new configure option --use-standard-socket may now be used to use this feature by default.
  • The gpg-agent commands KILLAGENT and RELOADAGENT are now available on all platforms.