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- What's new: MacPGP2.2 incorporates the following significant new
- features
- 1) Option to sign a plain text message with a plain text
- signature. Choose "Sign Only" under the File menu, and
- then check the box "Append clear signature" in the resulting
- dialog.
- 2) Key fingerprints (eg. to verify public keys over the phone)
- in the key management dialog. Unlike key IDs, it is impractical
- to forge key fingerprints.
- 3) Multiple recipients for a given message are supported.
- 4) Improved key handling: large key files can be added to a key
- ring much faster and in "autopilot" mode.
- 5) You may now disable other public keys in your keyring, besides
- revoking your own.
- 6) Icons are now associated to MacPGP and to the various kinds of
- files it creates. Double clicking on a MacPGP document now
- launches MacPGP and causes it to process (eg. decrypt) the
- document. If you had an older version of MacPGP previously
- installed, you may have to rebuild your Desktop files to
- enable this.
- 7) The menus have been reorganized and the PGP message window is
- scrollable (but not resizeable).
- 8) You can now select text in the PGP message window and copy it
- to the Clipboard.
- 9) MacPGP now times keystrokes more accurately and uses other
- Macintosh events (eg. mouse related events) to help with random
- number generation. As a result fewer keystrokes are required
- to generate random encryption keys.
- 10) You can now use MacPGP to just ASCIIfy a binary file without
- encryption or signature, under the File menu.
- 11) The key selection dialogs have been improved.
- 12) MacPGP dialogs now take SOME cognizance of the contents of your
- "config.txt" file. (Environmental path variables not yet supported.
- Neither are non-English languages or character sets. Also do NOT
- use TZFix, instead use the Map Control Panel to set your
- time zone. "config.txt" must be in the same folder as MacPGP.)
-
-
- IMPORTANT NOTE: Multiple recipients (feature (3) above) is not supported
- by PGP versions < 2.2. Hence if you use this option, users of these PGP
- versions will not be able to decrypt your message. An Alert has been added
- to warn you about this. To turn off this Alert, check "Multiple Recipients"
- under the Options menu or add the line
- Multiple_Recipients = on
- to your "config.txt".
-
- How MacPGP works: MacPGP consists of a Macintosh interface which presents
- menus and dialogs, and the PGP "engine" compiled from the same sources as
- the command line version of PGP under Unix or MS-DOS. The Macintosh front
- end receives your input telling it what to do. The front end then converts
- your input internally into a pgp command line which it passes on to the engine
- for processing. The command line is echoed to the PGP message window.
- Please read the attached PGP documentation for the command line version
- for details about PGP.
-
- LAST MINUTE NOTE: Several of the PGP cognoscenti complained that
- MacPGP doesn't allow you to access certain obscure and undocumented
- functions of PGP such as
- pgp -km .....
- pgp -da .....
- Rather than try to track down all of these hidden features and add menus
- and dialogs to access them, it was decided to add a kludge: a command line
- escape for MacPGP (also serving as a VERY PRIMITIVE scripting facility):
- There is now a new item under the File menu, "Run a command file".
- If you choose this item, a dialog appears asking you to choose a
- text file containing pgp command lines. MacPGP then passes all of
- these raw command lines one by one to the PGP engine, until it finishes
- reading the file. File pathnames are expected to use the Macintosh
- convention of using colons to separate directory names. Thus
- disk_name:top_folder:next_folder:...:file_name (absolute path)
- or
- :folder_name:folder_name2:...:file_name (relative path from current folder)
- If any of your file/folder/disk names contains a space you must enclose the
- whole path in double quotes. Multitudes of caveats apply to this feature.
- It is untested, unsupported and may bomb your Mac. Certain features of PGP such
- as "filter mode" will most definitely NOT WORK. Use this feature at your own
- risk. Be sure to read the PGP manual before attempting this.
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