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
+- "The EasyPG Assistant" which provides basic GUI of GnuPG
+- "The EasyPG Library" which enables use of various features of GnuPG
NOTE: EasyPG is not a fork or a re-implementation of Gnus/PGG.
** Installation
-$ ./configure
-$ sudo make install
+ $ ./configure
+ $ sudo make install
Add the following line to your ~/.emacs
-(require 'epa-setup)
+ (require 'epa-setup)
-* Advantages over other competitors
+Then you can do some cryptographic operations on dired.
-There are many competitors of EasyPG such as Mailcrypt, Gnus/PGG,
-gpg.el, etc. EasyPG has some advantages over them.
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-** EasyPG avoides potential security flaws of Emacs
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-See "Security consideration" section.
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-** GnuPG features are directly accessible from Emacs
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-Other competitors provide only specific features of GnuPG since they
-still support PGP 2.*, 5.*, 6.*. As the name indicates, EasyPG is
-inspired by GPGME (GnuPG Made Easy), and the library interface is
-close to GPGME. With EasyPG you can benefit from a lot of features of
-GnuPG.
+ M-x dired
+ (mark some files)
+ : e (or M-x epg-dired-do-encrypt)
+ (select recipients and click [OK])
* Security consideration