rsa incorporation in gnupg

Janusz A. Urbanowicz alex at bofh.torun.pl
Wed Jun 30 21:18:58 CEST 1999


> On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Werner Koch wrote:
> > $ `grep gcc rsa.c` && su -c "mv rsa /usr/local/lib/gnupg/"
> > $ echo  "--load-extension rsa" >>~/.gnupg/options
> 
> As I was doing this the other day, it occurred to me that it would be nice
> to have a "global" options file that is parsed for everyone. For example,
> parse a /usr/local/lib/gnupg/option first, and the suppliment it with a a
> user's individual settings, perhaps with a command-line option to avoid
> parsing the global file for paranoid users.

A good idea although not all options should be settable as global. Global
ones could be : keyserver, charset, load-extension. Others should be local,
per-user only settable.

Alex
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