Email encryption options for FreeBSD?

[W. D.]

Hi folks,

I ran portupgrade and then make, install, & clean for gnupg.

However, it seems that the version that is now installed is:

  gnupg-1.0.6_1

How to I get to the latest version?



At 09:45 1/21/2004, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> Re Email encryption options fo.ems<file://D:\Programs\Eudora\attach\Re Email encryption options fo.ems <0880.0002>> 
>
>At 2004-01-21T07:30:08Z, "W. D." <WD at US-Webmasters.com> writes:
>
>> Thanks Kirk, for your reply!
>
>You bet.
>
>> Would this consist of:
>>
>> 1.  First doing a portupgrade?  (OS is FreeBSD 4.4, ports are pretty much
>> that old.)
>
>I'd recommend it, if only to get the most recent security patches for your
>system.
>
>>     # portupgrade gnupg -arR
>
>The '-a' will upgrade everything on your system.  Is that what you want?
>Another option may be:
>
>    # portupgrade -N security/gnupg
>
>which will upgrade all dependencies, then install gnupg.
>
>> (Would I need to be logged in as root, or would a super user be fine?)
>
>I'm pretty sure you'll need to be root (or using sudo to execute the
>commands as root).
>
>> 6.  Would I need to reboot to have full functionality?
>
>Not likely at all.  I'd be very surprised if any of this required a reboot.
>
>>>2) Generate a keypair for the email recipient.
>
>>     Like this?
>>
>>     # gpg --gen-key
>
>Yep.
>
>
>>>3) Craft your script to use the "gpg" program to encrypt the outbound email
>>>   with the public key generated in step #2.
>>>4) mail()
>
>>    Something like these?
>>    http://www.pantz.org/scripting/php/gpgemail.shtml
>>    http://www.awtrey.com//files/php/gpgsend.txt
>
>Sure.  The second one has this block:
>
>$commandline = "echo $body | /usr/bin/gpg --homedir /home/username/.gnupg -a -r 'Full Username' -e -";
>    if ($debug==1) {
>      system($commandline);
>    } else {
>      exec($commandline,$encrypted);
>    }
>
>If you've already written the mailer, you could probably stick the above
>(modified to suit) somewhere before the mail() function and leave the rest
>of your script intact.
>
>>>5) Profit!
>
>>     Could you be *VERY* specific on how to do this?  ;^)
>
>Sure!  Just send $29.95 (plus $11.23 s/h) for my three-step program.  ;-)
>
>> Thanks!
>
>No problem.  Good luck!
>-- 
>Kirk Strauser
>
>"94 outdated ports on the box,
> 94 outdated ports.
> Portupgrade one, an hour 'til done,
> 82 outdated ports on the box."


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