GnuPG front ends

Frank McCormick fmccormick at videotron.ca
Thu Feb 1 13:24:59 UTC 2007


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On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 22:55:04 -0800
Patton Echols <p.echols at comcast.net> wrote:

> It looks like there are a couple of GUI front ends available for
> GnuPG. Looking at the web sites, It appears that Seahorse is more
> full featured than GPA, though my needs are fairly small.  I'd expect
> some level of key manager and I  want to be able to encrypt / sign
> clipboard contents or point to file, my choice.  Any thoughts about
> which might be a better choice?
> 

   I can't speak for Seahorse but I run GPA and find it fills all my
needs. But then all I need is signing/encryption of mail/

> Also, I'd expect that if I tried GPA, for example.  then uninstalled
> it and tried seahorse, keyrings etc would be there as soon as
> installed, both should be looking for the standard GnuPG file
> locations, right?


  I would ***think*** so . When I installed T'bird after setting up
GPG for Sylpheed, when it came to GPG setup it found all it needed.

Cheers


Frank
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