* What's this?
-EasyPG is yet another GnuPG interface for Emacs. It consists of three
-parts: transparent file encryption utility, Gnus/PGG backend, and
-elisp library to interact with GnuPG.
+EasyPG is yet another GnuPG interface for Emacs. It consists of two parts:
+
+epa.el - EasyPG Assistant, a basic GUI of GnuPG
+epg.el - the EasyPG library which interacts with GnuPG
+
+NOTE: EasyPG is not a fork or a re-implementation of Gnus/PGG.
* Requirements
** GnuPG 1.4.3 or later
-** Gnus 5.10.8 or later (optional)
-
* Quick start
** Installation
$ ./configure
$ sudo make install
-** Transparent file encryption utility
-
-EasyPG provides transparent file encryption utility similar to
-crypt++, alpaca.el, hedgehog. To try this, add the following line to
-your ~/.emacs and C-x C-f ~/test.txt.gpg.
-
-(require 'epf)
-
-** Gnus/PGG backend
-
-EasyPG provides an implementation of the backend interface of
-Gnus/PGG. To use EasyPG instead of pgg-gpg, install pgg-epg.el and
-add the following line to your ~/.gnus.
+Add the following line to your ~/.emacs
-(setq pgg-scheme 'epg)
+(require 'epa-setup)
* Advantages over other competitors