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  • how to find which pgp version?

    From Milenko Jekic@21:1/5 to All on Sun Feb 12 22:08:23 2017
    Hello all,
    I recently installed LinuxMint 17 and PGP, but I can't find which
    version of PGP i have. Naturally, i tried "PGP -v" but receive an error.
    Also, it refuses all commands starting with "--", i.e. "--version". Also
    is missing "man pgp". Anyway, I think that David's site <http://www.rossde.com/PGP/pgp_encrypt.html> is extremely useful, and
    I'll probably study it in days to come.

    Thanks,
    Mileking

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  • From Arthur T.@21:1/5 to Milenko Jekic on Sun Feb 12 18:24:50 2017
    In Message-ID:<o7qiss$1b3b$1@adenine.netfront.net>,
    Milenko Jekic <milenko.jekic@gmail.com> wrote:

    I recently installed LinuxMint 17 and PGP, but I can't find which
    version of PGP i have. Naturally, i tried "PGP -v" but receive an error. >Also, it refuses all commands starting with "--", i.e. "--version".

    My version acts like yours regarding those operands. However,
    the first line of output (before the error messages) includes the
    version number, and the next line includes the copyright date.

    --
    Arthur T. - ar23hur "at" pobox "dot" com

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  • From David W. Hodgins@21:1/5 to Milenko Jekic on Sun Feb 12 20:10:23 2017
    On Sun, 12 Feb 2017 16:08:23 -0500, Milenko Jekic <milenko.jekic@gmail.com> wrote:

    Hello all,
    I recently installed LinuxMint 17 and PGP, but I can't find which
    version of PGP i have. Naturally, i tried "PGP -v" but receive an error. Also, it refuses all commands starting with "--", i.e. "--version". Also
    is missing "man pgp". Anyway, I think that David's site <http://www.rossde.com/PGP/pgp_encrypt.html> is extremely useful, and
    I'll probably study it in days to come.

    On a linux system, why not use gpg instead? I don't know about Mint,
    but Mageia has gnupg and gnupg2 available in it's repositories.

    Regards, Dave Hodgins

    --
    Change dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org to davidwhodgins@teksavvy.com for
    email replies.

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  • From mileking@21:1/5 to David W. Hodgins on Mon Feb 13 10:56:33 2017
    On 13.02.2017. 02:10, David W. Hodgins wrote:
    On Sun, 12 Feb 2017 16:08:23 -0500, Milenko Jekic
    <milenko.jekic@gmail.com> wrote:

    Hello all,
    I recently installed LinuxMint 17 and PGP, but I can't find which
    version of PGP i have. Naturally, i tried "PGP -v" but receive an error.
    Also, it refuses all commands starting with "--", i.e. "--version". Also
    is missing "man pgp". Anyway, I think that David's site
    <http://www.rossde.com/PGP/pgp_encrypt.html> is extremely useful, and
    I'll probably study it in days to come.

    On a linux system, why not use gpg instead? I don't know about Mint,
    but Mageia has gnupg and gnupg2 available in it's repositories.

    Regards, Dave Hodgins


    tnx, i'll probably try that gpg thing
    mileking

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  • From mileking@21:1/5 to Hodgins on Mon Feb 13 21:32:16 2017
    On 13.02.2017. 10:56, mileking wrote:> On 13.02.2017. 02:10, David W.
    Hodgins wrote:
    On Sun, 12 Feb 2017 16:08:23 -0500, Milenko Jekic
    <milenko.jekic@gmail.com> wrote:

    Hello all,
    I recently installed LinuxMint 17 and PGP, but I can't find which
    version of PGP i have. Naturally, i tried "PGP -v" but receive an
    error.
    Also, it refuses all commands starting with "--", i.e. "--version".
    Also
    is missing "man pgp". Anyway, I think that David's site
    <http://www.rossde.com/PGP/pgp_encrypt.html> is extremely useful, and
    I'll probably study it in days to come.

    On a linux system, why not use gpg instead? I don't know about Mint,
    but Mageia has gnupg and gnupg2 available in it's repositories.

    Regards, Dave Hodgins


    tnx, i'll probably try that gpg thing
    mileking

    This GPG thing really works ! Here is output from my "gpg --version":

    gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.16
    Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
    License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
    <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
    This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
    There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

    Home: ~/.gnupg
    Supported algorithms:
    Pubkey: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA
    Cipher: IDEA, 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH,
    CAMELLIA128, CAMELLIA192, CAMELLIA256
    Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, SHA224
    Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2

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