* What's this?
-EasyPG is a GnuPG interface for Emacs. It has two aspects: tools to
-use GnuPG from Emacs (The EasyPG Assistant), and a fully functional
-library to interact with GnuPG (The EasyPG Library.)
+EasyPG is a GnuPG interface for Emacs. It has two aspects: convenient
+tools which allow to use GnuPG from Emacs (EasyPG Assistant), and a
+fully functional interface library to GnuPG (EasyPG Library.)
* Requirements
M-x dired
(mark some files)
: e (or M-x epa-dired-do-encrypt)
- (select recipients and click [OK])
+ (select recipients by 'm' and click [OK])
* MUA Integration
** CVS version of Gnus
-CVS version of Gnus has the native EasyPG binding, simply put the
-following line into your ~/.emacs.
+CVS version of Gnus supports EasyPG natively, simply put the following
+line into your ~/.emacs.
(setq mml2015-use 'epg)
PGG is somewhat outdated PGP library used by old Gnus, MH-E, etc.
There is a PGG backend using EasyPG called pgg-epg.el. However,
-EasyPG API is a superset of PGG, so pgg-epg.el just emulate the old
+EasyPG API is a superset of PGG, so pgg-epg.el just emulates the old
behavior of pgg.el. Major features which PGG lacks are
-- Key selection interface
-- Web of trust support
-- A mechanism to investigate the verify result
-- S/MIME support using gpgsm
+- Key selection user interface
+- Diagnosis interface to the verify operation
+- Web of trust
+- S/MIME using gpgsm
** SEMI based MUA