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program. The "config.txt" settings override those in the preferences file.
text file "config.txt" which must be in the same folder as the MacPGP
your System Folder. You can also specify some of these options from the
This saves the options you have selected in the "PGP Preferences" file in
• Save Options
to be recognized by PGP 2.3a and earlier versions.
Use this option if you want the keys and messages you create
This option allows you to make backwards compatible files.
• Use 2.3a Format
"ASCII output" option above.
each chunk in a multipart ".asc" file sequence. See the entry for the
This option allows you to specify the maximum number of lines allowed in
• Armorlines
encryption, conventional encryption, and signing.
file selection dialogs. You can also specify defaults for public-key
Clipboard should be used for input when encrypting or signing, avoiding
This option allows you to bypass various dialogs. You can specify that the
• Dialog shortcuts
with your signature or decrypt private messages to you.
computer without exiting the application someone could sign documents
does not need to retype them. Be careful with this option; if you leave the
point during its execution for the duration of the execution so the user
Under this option MacPGP remembers passwords that were entered at any
• Recycle passwords
checkbox option under Decryption.
is about to be "wiped" (irreversably erased) under the "wipe file"
Turning this switch on causes MacPGP to warn and prompt anytime a file
• Wipe warning
and replace it with the newly decrypted file of the same name.
e.g. decryption. Instead it will just remove (not wipe) the existing file
option is on, MacPGP will NOT prompt you before overwriting files during
In the regular PGP package this is called the "force flag". When the
• Overwrite files
PGP non-interactively.
questions or prompt for alternate filenames. This is useful for running
With the Batch flag enabled, MacPGP will not ask any "unneccessary"
• Batch Mode
operations.
In quiet mode, MacPGP outputs minimal amounts of information during
• Quiet Mode
because this requires the recipient's secret key, which you don't have.
then you won't be able to decrypt RSA (public key) messages you create,
recipient of any RSA encrypted messages you create. If you don't do this
This option allows you to automatically include yourself as an additional
• Encrypt to Self
characters to users of non-Macintosh machines.
So you should use this flag to send PGP messages containing non-English
personal computer character set formats to ISO Latin-1 format and back.
west European countries. PGP provides for translation of text files from
in Romance and Germanic languages and is widely used on Unix systems in
standard is used to encode diacritical marks such as accents, umlauts, etc.
Organization's format for west European language character sets. This
PGP convert Macintosh plaintext files to the International Standards
Use this option in conjunction with the "treat source as text" option to make
• ISO Latin-1
whatever text form is appropriate for the local environment.
receiving end, the decrypted plaintext is automatically converted back to
converted to canonical text form before it gets encrypted. At the
plaintext should be treated as ASCII text (not binary data) and should be
linefeed at the end of each line of text. PGP lets you specify that the
from one machine to another. Canonical text has a carriage return and a
translated to some common "canonical" form when they are transmitted
Normal unencrypted ASCII text messages are often automatically
plaintext file contains what it thinks is non-text binary data.
translation. This mode is automatically turned off if PGP detects that the
architectures. When it is enabled, PGP takes care of the proper
because of minor and major variations in text formats across machine
converted to canonical text before encryption. This option is necessary
Use this option to make PGP assume the plaintext is text that should be
• Treat source as text
menu. MacPGP converts it to a ".asc" file.
radix-64 format by simply using the "ASCIIfy" command in the File
file or extracted a key, you may still directly convert the binary file into
If you forgot to use the ASCII Output option when you made a ciphertext
radix-64 message blocks.
ignores any extraneous text in mail headers that are not enclosed in the
proper order into one big file before decrypting it. While decrypting, PGP
recipient must concatenate these separate files back together in their
put into files named with extensions ".as1", ".as2", "as3", etc. The
into chunks that are each small enough to send via E-mail. The chunks are
large, and you requested radix-64 format, PGP automatically breaks it up
chunks that can be mailed separately. If your encrypted message is very
than 50000 bytes long. Longer messages must be broken into smaller
Most Internet E-mail facilities prohibit sending messages that are more
this option while extracting the key from your keyring.
want to send a public key to someone else in radix-64 format, just enable
transport-armored message is no different than a normal decrypt. If you
encryption or key extraction operation. Decrypting the radix-64
The radix-64 format is generated when this option is set during an
probably was compressed more than that by PGP before it was encrypted.
33%. But this expansion isn't so bad when you consider that the file
8-bit bytes into 4 printable ASCII characters, so the file grows by about
Radix-64 format converts the plaintext by expanding groups of 3 binary
errors.
Internet. It also appends a redundancy check (CRC) to detect transmission
against corruption as it travels through intersystem gateways on
text. This format acts as a form of "transport armor", protecting it
7-bit channels or for sending binary encrypted data as normal E-mail
characters, so it is useful for transmitting binary encrypted data through
This special format represents binary data by using only printable ASCII
messages, similar to the Internet Privacy-Enhanced Mail (PEM) format.
this problem, PGP supports the ASCII radix-64 format for ciphertext
not the 8-bit raw binary data that ciphertext is made of. To get around
Many electronic mail systems only allow messages made of ASCII text,
and compressed/encrypted data) to be encoded in text messages.
format," a scheme that allows arbitrary binary data (in this case, keys
This specifies that output files should be encoded in the "radix-64
• ASCII output
the RSA process.)
generation the mode reveals the internal mathematical parameters used in
problems in PGP. Not recommended for normal use. (Under key
Under this mode to display maximum information, usually to help diagnose
• Verbose
commands that PGP executes.
option to attach comments to PGP generated headers, as well as modify the
trustworthy signatures, how deeply nested they are. Also one can use this
example how many completely trustworthy signatures, how many partially
to trust a given public key based on the signatures attached to it. For
This option allows you to fine tune the way PGP determines whether or not
• Misc. Customizations
key before adding it to your key ring.
keys to your key ring, MacPGP will ask for confirmation (or veto) of each
Enabling this mode will mean that if you add a key file containing multiple
• Interactive key addition
non-Macintosh system.
want MacPGP to process PGP generated files downloaded from a
relevant file types will be shown. This option should be turned off if you
This option indicates that in file selection dialogs, only files with the
• Use file types
voluminous output from PGP, eg. when viewing a large keyring.
operation to be saved to a disk file. Use this option when you expect
This is a MacPGP option that allows the PGP session text output during an
• Logfile
main keyring
keyring which will be searched if the desired key is not found in your
file name using this command. You can also specify a secondary public
contains a public or a secret key. You may specify a different key ring
"pubring.pgp" or "secring.pgp", depending on whether the keyfile
algorithm, use a keyring file. The optional keyring file name defaults to
Virtually all PGP commands, in particular those dealing with the RSA
• Set Key Ring...
"command-line options".
This menu allows the toggling of various PGP "switches" or "flags" or
åThe Options Menu