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<H2><A NAME="GPG-Minihowto-frontends"></A> <A NAME="s6">6.</A> <A HREF="GPGMiniHowto.html#toc6">Front ends</A></H2>
<P>To make life a lot easier in using GnuPG, you have a wide choice of programs
that either use or support GnuPG encryption.
There are graphical front ends that put your key administration at the
click of a mouse button and many MUAs (Mail User Agents) let you encrypt and
sign your Email messages seamlessly.
A nearly full list of front ends is available from the
<A HREF="http://www.gnupg.org/(en)/related_software/frontends.html">GnuPG Frontends</A> page.
We will highlight a few of them in this section.</P>
<H2><A NAME="ss6.1">6.1</A> <A HREF="GPGMiniHowto.html#toc6.1">Graphical interfaces</A>
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<H3>GPA</H3>
<P>
<A HREF="http://www.gnupg.org/gpa.html">GPA</A>, the <EM>GNU Privacy
Assistant</EM> is a graphical user interface for the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG).
This is the standard graphical front end, provided by the GnuPG project.
With GPA, you can view your keyring, import and export keys, generate keys,
edit key properties and encrypt, sign or decrypt documents.
Installing GPA is easy.
Download the tarball, unpack and do the usual
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./configure; make; make install.
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Start the program by typing
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gpa
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<H3>Seahorse</H3>
<P>
<A HREF="http://seahorse.sourceforge.net/">Seahorse</A>
is a GNOME front-end for GnuPG.
It can be used for sign, encrypt, verify and decrypt text and files.
The text can be taken from the clipboard, or written directly in the little
editor it has. Seahorse is also a key manager, which can be used to edit
almost all the properties of the keys stored in your key rings.
You can install Seahorse from a Debian package (RPMs are not available
at this time) or from the source tarball.
Installing from source is like any other package. Download, untar, configure
and make install.
The installation puts seahorse in <CODE>/usr/local</CODE> and puts a menu item in
the Gnome 'Applications' menu.</P>
<H3>Geheimnis</H3>
<P>
<A HREF="http://devel-home.kde.org/~kgpg/index.html">KGPG</A> is a
front end for GnuPG which is based upon KDE.
KGPG supports key signing, importing and exporting. It can also work with
other KDE tools interactively like konquerer. </P>
<H2><A NAME="ss6.2">6.2</A> <A HREF="GPGMiniHowto.html#toc6.2">Email programs</A>
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<P>Most popular Email programs (or MUAs) support GnuPG. Among these are
at least the following:
<UL>
<LI>Mozilla</LI>
<LI>Evolution</LI>
<LI>Pine</LI>
<LI>Kmail</LI>
<LI>Eudora</LI>
<LI>Mutt</LI>
<LI>exmh</LI>
</UL>
</P>
<P>There are probably more; it is hardly possible to try them all.</P>
<P>Using GnuPG support in your mail program lets you decrypt Email messages sent
to you that are encrypted with your public key, sign your messages so the
receiving party can make sure you are the author and encrypt your Email
with the public keys of your recipients.</P>
<H3>Mozilla and Enigmail</H3>
<P>Mozilla does not have GnuPG support in itself. To use GnuPG encryption with
Mozilla, you must install a plug-in, such as
<A HREF="http://enigmail.mozdev.org/">EnigMail</A>.
Enigmail is a "plugin" for Mozilla/Netscape Mail which allows users to access
the authentication and encryption features provided by the popular
GPG and PGP software.
Enigmail can encrypt/sign mail when sending, and also decrypt/authenticate
received mail. It can also import/export public keys.</P>
<P>Enigmail can easily be installed by Mozilla extension management. The only thing
you should do is to click on the proper link related with your Mozilla version
on the
<A HREF="http://enigmail.mozdev.org/download.html">Download</A> page.
Unfortunately, RPMs for enigmail are not available.</P>
<H3>Evolution</H3>
<P>Evolution is a well-known MUA for Linux and has fairly good GnuPG support. It can
get e-mails encrypted and decrypt them. It also has built in key signing and
key authorising options. It supports S/MIME but inline pgp support (which is
not standard but used by some MUAs) is not implemented.
To configure the GnuPG settings you should check the mail account preferences.</P>
<H3>Kmail</H3>
<P>Kmail, the standard Email program for KDE has integrated support for GnuPG
and PGP encryption.
To set things up so you can sign and decrypt messages, you have to enter your
GnuPG user ID in the 'Identity' section of the Kmail configuration.
When you send a new message, the message will not be signed or encrypted by
default. You have to check the 'Sign message' and 'Encrypt message' buttons
in the tool bar.</P>
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