Version 4.56 of EasyGPG is Published

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

The following changes were made.

• When Tor is available, EasyGPG now uses the Tor Onion Service Minus server to update instead of the Gopher server.
• Some code has been consolidated making this new version 117 bytes smaller than the previous version.

I plan to update the EasyGPG installer soon. It will also use the Minus server instead of the Gopher server.

In several hours I plan to publish a simple but complete Minus server, implemented as a BASH script. The server will meet all the requirements of the published Minus specification. I will also publish a new version of the specification which corrects a small error in my choice of words.

Finally, I also plan to publish some scripts to make your Minus server available as a Tor Onion Service.

The sha256sum of this new version of easygpg.sh is 4742e66b2cfee8b9d8143a25c5a7b8fdaa2464a95398dfc31c4fbbb5e7e46609.

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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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