Version 4.55 of EasyGPG is Published

EasyGPG is an easy-to-use GUI for GPG that uses Zenity and XClip.

The following changes were made.

• The Read text from the Internet Action now does a better job of recognizing URLs in the copied text.
• The Read text from the Internet Action now supports the Minus protocol.

The Read text from the Internet Action was intended to make it easy to import PGP keys and read PGP messages directly from the Internet. Now it also provides a "stopgap" way to browse Minus sets, like the EasyGPG Minus set.

The EasyGPG Gopher hole is not the only Tor Onion Service Gopher hole, so EasyGPG may also be a "stopgap" Tor Onion Gopher browser.

I hope to develop a stand-alone browser for both Gopher and Minus in the next several weeks. It may not, at first, be as easy to follow links with this browser as we would like. Perhaps others will develop better alternatives.

The sha256sum of this new version of easygpg.sh is c415c4121d0bd7da385af17b5012bf35f31e08b13469671e138fe71f88d0cd4c.

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To update to this new version, just double-click Check for a new version of EasyGPG in the EasyGPG-Actions folder (or, if your version is earlier than 4.0, select Check for a new version of EasyGPG in the main menu).

If you update from a very old version, check to make sure you have the latest version. If not, update again.

To update a copy of EasyGPG older than 3.0, use the installer (below), but select your already-existing EasyGPG folder. If you do this correctly, you will be asked whether or not you want to replace the existing EasyGPG. Click “Replace” to replace your old version of EasyGPG with the latest version.

To install EasyGPG for the first time, click on one of the following links. This is a tar.gz file. Extract the contents of the file, which will be a folder called EasyGPG-Installer. Open the folder, and double-click Install EasyGPG. This will create your new EasyGPG folder, and build all the files and folders inside it. Refresh the GUI file manager window to ensure the icons are correctly displayed.

If the Desktop files (all the Actions and the main Desktop file) do not work, you will need to install a graphical file manager that complies with the XDG standards: nemo, caja, pcmanfm, thunar, or dolphin. None of these has to be made the default graphical file manager. You only need to install one or more of them.

https://codeberg.org/giXzkGsc/EasyGPG/raw/branch/main/EasyGPG-Installer.tar.gz
https://archive.org/download/easygpg/EasyGPG-Installer.tar.gz

[The installer is also available at
http://7hinc6ucgvwbcjjoe44lhzzxyjptb3da6tzl33oe7ezl2qgwlrkfe6yd.onion/EasyGPG-Installer.tar.gz (Onionland) and
http://easygpg2.i2p/EasyGPG-Installer.tar.gz (I2P)]

EasyGPG Web Sites
https://codeberg.org/giXzkGsc/EasyGPG Codeberg (clearnet)
https://archive.org/details/easygpg Internet Archive (clearnet)
http://7hinc6ucgvwbcjjoe44lhzzxyjptb3da6tzl33oe7ezl2qgwlrkfe6yd.onion/ Tor Onion Service web site
http://easygpg2.i2p/ I2P eepsite

EasyGPG Tor Onion Gopher Hole
gopher://7hinc6ucgvwbcjjoe44lhzzxyjptb3da6tzl33oe7ezl2qgwlrkfe6yd.onion/

EasyGPG Tor Onion Minus Server
minus://7hinc6ucgvwbcjjoe44lhzzxyjptb3da6tzl33oe7ezl2qgwlrkfe6yd.onion/

For news about EasyGPG, click on the #easygpg tag.

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This project has never been on GitHub, though another project with the same name has. This project is not related in any way to the German government, though another project with the same name is.

When using software, the greatest threat to privacy and security is the Internet. EasyGPG will not attempt to communicate with the Internet unless you tell it to read text from the Internet or check for a new version. I will make no attempt to discover who is using my software, where, when, how, or for what purpose.

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