[Kmymoney] KMyMoney Encryption on Windows

[Cristian Oneț]

You're welcome. I've sent this to the list also in case others would
need this information.

Regards,
Cristian

2014-05-27 22:16 GMT+03:00 LES TURNER <les.turner5 at btinternet.com>:
> Cristian,
>
> You made that look so easy......., thank you very much!  That works a treat.
>
> I now have KMyMoney encryption working on my Windows 7 Home Premium and am
> 'well chuffed'.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Regards,
>
> Les
>
> ________________________________
> From: Cristian Oneț <onet.cristian at gmail.com>
> To: LES TURNER <les.turner5 at btinternet.com>; KMyMoney Users' mailing list
> <kmymoney at kde.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, 27 May 2014, 16:42
>
> Subject: Re: [Kmymoney] KMyMoney Encryption on Windows
>
> OK, your are right, on a default gpg4win installation the encryption
> does not work. This is caused by the fact that the gpgme library
> against which KMyMoney is packaged is trying to run gpg.exe which is
> not in C:\Program Files (x86)\GNU\GnuPG\. Only gpg2.exe is there. A
> workaround this issue is to copy gpg2.exe as gpg.exe in the same
> folder (or copy it from C:\Program Files (x86)\GNU\GnuPG\pub).
>
> Let me know if this fixes your problem.
>
> Regards,
> Cristian
>
> 2014-05-27 17:19 GMT+03:00 LES TURNER <les.turner5 at btinternet.com>:
>> Hi Cristian,
>>
>> Yes I did use the KMyMoney installer in your link to install version
>> 4.6.4.
>>
>> The output from the command gpg --version was:
>>
>> C:\>gpg --version
>>
>> gpg (GnuPG) 2.0.22 (Gpg4win 2.2.1)
>> libgcrypt 1.5.3
>> Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
>> <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
>> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
>> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
>>
>> Home: C:/Users/Les/AppData/Roaming/gnupg
>> Supported algorithms:
>> Pubkey: RSA, ELG, DSA, ?, ?
>> Cipher: IDEA, 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH,
>>        CAMELLIA128, CAMELLIA192, CAMELLIA256
>> Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, SHA224
>> Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2
>>
>> C:\>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Les
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From: Cristian Oneț <onet.cristian at gmail.com>
>> To: LES TURNER <les.turner5 at btinternet.com>; KMyMoney Users' mailing list
>> <kmymoney at kde.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, 27 May 2014, 8:52
>> Subject: Re: [Kmymoney] KMyMoney Encryption on Windows
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Did you install KMyMoney 4.6.4 using this [1] installer?
>> Can you post the output of the following command?
>>
>> gpg --version
>>
>> It should be something like this:
>>
>> gpg (GnuPG) 2.0.22 (Gpg4win 2.2.1)
>> libgcrypt 1.5.3
>> Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
>> <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
>> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
>> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Cristian
>>
>>
>> [1]
>>
>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/kmymoney2/files/KMyMoney-Windows/4.6.4/kmymoney-x86-setup-4.6.4.exe/download
>>
>> 2014-05-26 22:54 GMT+03:00 LES TURNER <les.turner5 at btinternet.com>:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I've got KmyMoney running on both OpenSuse and also on a separate
>>> partition
>>> on a Windows 7 Home Premium install.
>>>
>>> Enryption works great on the KMyMoney install in OpenSuse, but when I try
>>> to
>>> configure encryption on KMyMoney in the Windows system, the encryption
>>> section is greyed out.
>>>
>>> I installed Gpg4win on Windows before installing KMyMoney and can encrypt
>>> and decrypt using this via Windows Explorer without problems so I believe
>>> my
>>> key is recognised and accepted as valid.
>>> I use this same key for encryption on KMyMoney / OpenSuse and it is fine.
>>>
>>> The error message I get on KMyMoney / Windows is "GPG is not available
>>> for
>>> decryption of file G:/Name.kmy".  When I close that error message I get a
>>> further error message "File G:/Name.kmy contains the old binary format
>>> used
>>> by KMyMoney. Please use an older version of KMyMoney (0.8.x) that still
>>> supports this format to convert it to the new XML based format".
>>> Initially
>>> I had KmyMoney version 4.6.3 on both systems but have since installed the
>>> later KMyMoney version 4.6.4 on Windows and am still having the same
>>> problems.
>>>
>>> I am comfortable working in Windows but am a novice on Linux and GPG
>>> encryption. Simple instructions would therefore be very much appreciated!
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for any advice you can give.
>>>
>>> I did check through the Community Forum where someone had apparently got
>>> encryption to work on Windows, but following the guidance, I still have
>>> the
>>> same problem that KmyMoney does not recognise that GPG
>>>
>>> encryption is in place on the PC.
>>>
>>> Help please.
>>>
>>> Les
>>>
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