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Subject: Using GnuPG on Linux desktops with GUI

Good day from Singapore,

I am using Linux desktops with GUI and GUI mail clients as well.

I understand GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) is a free and open source command line tool.

How do I use it with a GUI mail client to sign and encrypt email messages and files?

I am very much interested in cryptography.

I am looking forward to your replies.

Thank you very much.

Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming, 43 years old as of 14 Oct 2021, is a TARGETED INDIVIDUAL living in Singapore. He is an IT Consultant with a Systems Integrator (SI)/computer firm in Singapore. He is an IT enthusiast.

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On Thu, 14 Oct 2021 22:06:03 +0800
Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming via Gnupg-users <gnupg-users@gnupg.org> wrote:

> I am using Linux desktops with GUI and GUI mail clients as well.
>
> I understand GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) is a free and open source
> command line tool.
>
> How do I use it with a GUI mail client to sign and encrypt email
> messages and files?

I'd have a look for a GnuPG plug-in for your email client. It's not
clear which one you are using.

I'm using Claws Mail right now, PGP/MIME can be enabled by enabling it
in the plug-ins dialogue. Others like Trojitá, there are similar
options for enabling and configuring GnuPG support.

For Mozilla Thunderbird, it has its own OpenPGP implementation
built-in, but if you wish, you can (at the moment) tell it to use
GnuPG. An example use case where you might want to do this is if your
OpenPGP keys are stored on a hardware token (Thunderbird's built-in
OpenPGP support doesn't support these tokens yet).

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:OpenPGP:Smartcards says "Use the
Thunderbird config editor (found at the bottom of preferences/options),
and search for mail.openpgp.allow_external_gnupg. Switch the value to
true."

Web-based clients: you'll need to look at some sort of browser
extension to enable this feature.

For just file and message encryption outside of emails, there are
various front-ends for GnuPG if you must use a GUI tool, for example
KDE ships Kleopatra.
--
Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL)

I haven't lost my mind...
...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

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Dear Stuart Longland,

Thank you for your reply.

I think I will be using Mozilla Thunderbird on Linux desktops.

Regards,

Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming
Targeted Individual in Singapore



On Fri, 15 Oct 2021 at 05:03, Stuart Longland
<stuartl@longlandclan.id.au> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 14 Oct 2021 22:06:03 +0800
> Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming via Gnupg-users <gnupg-users@gnupg.org> wrote:
>
> > I am using Linux desktops with GUI and GUI mail clients as well.
> >
> > I understand GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) is a free and open source
> > command line tool.
> >
> > How do I use it with a GUI mail client to sign and encrypt email
> > messages and files?
>
> I'd have a look for a GnuPG plug-in for your email client. It's not
> clear which one you are using.
>
> I'm using Claws Mail right now, PGP/MIME can be enabled by enabling it
> in the plug-ins dialogue. Others like Trojitá, there are similar
> options for enabling and configuring GnuPG support.
>
> For Mozilla Thunderbird, it has its own OpenPGP implementation
> built-in, but if you wish, you can (at the moment) tell it to use
> GnuPG. An example use case where you might want to do this is if your
> OpenPGP keys are stored on a hardware token (Thunderbird's built-in
> OpenPGP support doesn't support these tokens yet).
>
> https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:OpenPGP:Smartcards says "Use the
> Thunderbird config editor (found at the bottom of preferences/options),
> and search for mail.openpgp.allow_external_gnupg. Switch the value to
> true."
>
> Web-based clients: you'll need to look at some sort of browser
> extension to enable this feature.
>
> For just file and message encryption outside of emails, there are
> various front-ends for GnuPG if you must use a GUI tool, for example
> KDE ships Kleopatra.
> --
> Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL)
>
> I haven't lost my mind...
> ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

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