title: notes on gpg4win link: https://onemoretech.wordpress.com/2014/07/28/notes-on-gpg4win/ author: phil2nc description: post_id: 8050 created: 2014/07/28 14:02:58 created_gmt: 2014/07/28 18:02:58 comment_status: closed post_name: notes-on-gpg4win status: publish post_type: post

notes on gpg4win

Just today a colleague and I exchanged public gpg keys and I realized that although things were up-to-date on my Linux machines, my Windows laptop was in dire need of a Gpg4win reinstall. At some point even those of us who are immersed 24x7 in the Unix world have to do stuff on Windows. Since my employer's e-mail system is on Windows, it's more efficient for me to use that platform. Fortunately Gpg4win had a pretty thorough update last October, v2.2.1, while I had something older installed. To do my update I uninstalled the old version and then installed gpg4win-light-2.2.1 to C:\GNU\GnuPG from scratch. Since I'd not yet created a keyring on the Windows machine, I exported my private key to an ASCII armor file and imported it into a new keyring using GPA (on Windows the default location for the keyring and configuration files is "C:\Users%USERNAME%\AppData\Roaming\gnupg"). The Gpg4win Compendium contains some good documentation on the installation, configuration and use of the product.

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