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Re: encrypting files


From: Herbert J. Skuhra
Subject: Re: encrypting files
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 01:00:54 +0100
User-agent: Wanderlust/2.15.9 (Almost Unreal) Emacs/23.1 Mule/6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO)

At Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:54:07 -0800 (PST),
rustom wrote:
> 
> Is there a simple way of encrypting files in emacs23?
> I gather that emacs23 already has the infrastructure and most of whats
> on the wiki is not required (or appropriate) for emacs23

To encrypt files with gpg just do

M-x epa-encrypt-file
or
M-x epa-encrypt-region

If you use the GTK2 GUI of emacs and have the menu bar enabled: Tools
-> Encryption/Decryption.

If you want ascii armored output add the following line to your
~/.emacs:

(setq epa-armor t)

-Herbert




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