1 The GNU Privacy Guard 2
2 =========================
5 Copyright 1997-2017 Werner Koch
6 Copyright 1998-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
11 GnuPG is a complete and free implementation of the OpenPGP standard
12 as defined by RFC4880 (also known as PGP). GnuPG enables encryption
13 and signing of data and communication, and features a versatile key
14 management system as well as access modules for public key
17 GnuPG, also known as GPG, is a command line tool with features for
18 easy integration with other applications. A wealth of frontend
19 applications and libraries are available that make use of GnuPG.
20 Starting with version 2 GnuPG provides support for S/MIME and Secure
21 Shell in addition to OpenPGP.
23 GnuPG is Free Software (meaning that it respects your freedom). It
24 can be freely used, modified and distributed under the terms of the
25 GNU General Public License.
27 Note that the 2.0 series of GnuPG will reach end-of-life on
28 2017-12-31. It is not possible to install a 2.1.x version along
29 with any 2.0.x version. However, it is possible to install GnuPG
30 1.4 along with a 2.x version.
35 GnuPG 2.1 depends on the following GnuPG related packages:
37 npth (ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/npth/)
38 libgpg-error (ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libgpg-error/)
39 libgcrypt (ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libgcrypt/)
40 libksba (ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libksba/)
41 libassuan (ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libassuan/)
43 You should get the latest versions of course, the GnuPG configure
44 script complains if a version is not sufficient.
46 For some advanced features several other libraries are required.
47 The configure script prints diagnostic messages if one of these
48 libraries is not available and a feature will not be available..
50 You also need the Pinentry package for most functions of GnuPG;
51 however it is not a build requirement. Pinentry is available at
52 ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/pinentry/ .
54 After building and installing the above packages in the order as
55 given above, you may continue with GnuPG installation (you may also
56 just try to build GnuPG to see whether your already installed
57 versions are sufficient).
59 As with all packages, you just have to do
66 The "make check" is optional but highly recommended. To run even
67 more tests you may add "--enable-all-tests" to the configure run.
68 Before running the "make install" you might need to become root.
70 If everything succeeds, you have a working GnuPG with support for
71 OpenPGP, S/MIME, ssh-agent, and smartcards. Note that there is no
72 binary gpg but a gpg2 so that this package won't conflict with a
73 GnuPG 1.4 installation. gpg2 behaves just like gpg.
75 In case of problem please ask on the gnupg-users@gnupg.org mailing
78 Instruction on how to build for Windows can be found in the file
79 doc/HACKING in the section "How to build an installer for Windows".
80 This requires some experience as developer.
82 Note that the PKITS tests are always skipped unless you copy the
83 PKITS test data file into the tests/pkits directory. There is no
84 need to run these test and some of them may even fail because the
85 test scripts are not yet complete.
91 to view the default directories used by GnuPG.
93 To quickly build all required software without installing it, the
94 Speedo method may be used:
96 make -f build-aux/speedo.mk native
98 This method downloads all required libraries and does a native build
99 of GnuPG to PLAY/inst/. GNU make is required and you need to set
100 LD_LIBRARY_PATH to $(pwd)/PLAY/inst/lib to test the binaries.
102 ** Specific build problems on some machines:
104 *** Apple OSX 10.x using XCode
106 On some versions the correct location of a header file can't be
107 detected by configure. To fix that you should run configure like
110 ./configure gl_cv_absolute_stdint_h=/usr/include/stdint.h
112 Add other options as needed.
115 *** Systems without a full C99 compiler
117 If you run into problems with your compiler complaining about dns.c
120 ./configure --disable-libdns
122 Add other options as needed.
125 * MIGRATION from 1.4 or 2.0 to 2.1
127 The major change in 2.1 is gpg-agent taking care of the OpenPGP
128 secret keys (those managed by GPG). The former file "secring.gpg"
129 will not be used anymore. Newly generated keys are stored in the
130 agent's key store directory "~/.gnupg/private-keys-v1.d/". The
131 first time gpg needs a secret key it checks whether a "secring.gpg"
132 exists and copies them to the new store. The old secring.gpg is
133 kept for use by older versions of gpg.
135 Note that gpg-agent now uses a fixed socket. All tools will start
136 the gpg-agent as needed. The formerly used environment variable
137 GPG_AGENT_INFO is ignored by 2.1. The SSH_AUTH_SOCK environment
138 variable should be set to a fixed value.
140 The Dirmngr is now part of GnuPG proper and also used to access
141 OpenPGP keyservers. The directory layout of Dirmngr changed to make
142 use of the GnuPG directories. Dirmngr is started by gpg or gpgsm as
143 needed. There is no more need to install a separate Dirmngr package.
149 GnuPG uses Unix domain sockets to connect its components (on Windows
150 an emulation of these sockets is used). Depending on the type of
151 the file system, it is sometimes not possible to use the GnuPG home
152 directory (i.e. ~/.gnupg) as the location for the sockets. To solve
153 this problem GnuPG prefers the use of a per-user directory below the
154 the /run (or /var/run) hierarchy for the the sockets. It is thus
155 suggested to create per-user directories on system or session
156 startup. For example the following snippet can be used in
157 /etc/rc.local to create these directories:
159 [ ! -d /run/user ] && mkdir /run/user
160 awk -F: </etc/passwd '$3 >= 1000 && $3 < 65000 {print $3}' \
161 | ( while read uid rest; do
162 if [ ! -d "/run/user/$uid" ]; then
164 chown $uid /run/user/$uid
165 chmod 700 /run/user/$uid
172 The complete documentation is in the texinfo manual named
173 `gnupg.info'. Run "info gnupg" to read it. If you want a a
174 printable copy of the manual, change to the "doc" directory and
175 enter "make pdf" For a HTML version enter "make html" and point your
176 browser to gnupg.html/index.html. Standard man pages for all
177 components are provided as well. An online version of the manual is
178 available at [[https://gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg/]] . A
179 version of the manual pertaining to the current development snapshot
180 is at [[https://gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg-devel/]] .
183 * Installing GnuPG 2.2. and GnuPG 1.4
185 GnuPG 2.2 is a current version of GnuPG with state of the art
186 security design and many more features. To install both versions
187 alongside, it is suggested to rename the 1.4 version of "gpg" to
188 "gpg1" as well as the corresponding man page. Newer releases of the
189 1.4 branch will likely do this by default. In case this is not
190 possible, the 2.2 version can be installed under the name "gpg2"
191 using the configure option --enable-gpg-is-gpg2.
194 * HOW TO GET MORE INFORMATION
196 A description of new features and changes in version 2.1 can be
197 found in the file "doc/whats-new-in-2.1.txt" and online at
198 "https://gnupg.org/faq/whats-new-in-2.1.html" .
200 The primary WWW page is "https://www.gnupg.org"
201 or using Tor "http://ic6au7wa3f6naxjq.onion"
202 The primary FTP site is "ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/"
204 See [[https://gnupg.org/download/mirrors.html]] for a list of
205 mirrors and use them if possible. You may also find GnuPG mirrored
206 on some of the regular GNU mirrors.
208 We have some mailing lists dedicated to GnuPG:
210 gnupg-announce@gnupg.org For important announcements like new
211 versions and such stuff. This is a
212 moderated list and has very low traffic.
213 Do not post to this list.
215 gnupg-users@gnupg.org For general user discussion and
218 gnupg-de@gnupg.org German speaking counterpart of
221 gnupg-ru@gnupg.org Russian speaking counterpart of
224 gnupg-devel@gnupg.org GnuPG developers main forum.
226 You subscribe to one of the list by sending mail with a subject of
227 "subscribe" to x-request@gnupg.org, where x is the name of the
228 mailing list (gnupg-announce, gnupg-users, etc.). See
229 https://www.gnupg.org/documentation/mailing-lists.html for archives
230 of the mailing lists.
232 Please direct bug reports to [[http://bugs.gnupg.org]] or post them
233 direct to the mailing list <gnupg-devel@gnupg.org>.
235 Please direct questions about GnuPG to the users mailing list or one
236 of the PGP newsgroups; please do not direct questions to one of the
237 authors directly as we are busy working on improvements and bug
238 fixes. The English and German mailing lists are watched by the
239 authors and we try to answer questions when time allows us.
241 Commercial grade support for GnuPG is available; for a listing of
242 offers see https://www.gnupg.org/service.html . Maintaining and
243 improving GnuPG requires a lot of time. Since 2001, g10 Code GmbH,
244 a German company owned and headed by GnuPG's principal author Werner
245 Koch, is bearing the majority of these costs. To keep GnuPG in a
246 healthy state, they need your support.
248 Please consider to donate at https://gnupg.org/donate/ .
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257 # warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.