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Encryption Using Gnome Seahorse

August 6th, 2008

After my previous post about GNU Privacy Assistant and not having an easy encryption option built into Nautilus it seems that i didn’t look very far.

Today I researched a bit deeper and installed Gnome Seahorse. Essentially this does exactly what I was looking for.

  • It allows creation of new keys.
  • It recognised already created keys, my pgp key created using GPA yesterday was immediately available.
  • Encrytion, decryption and signing are all built into nautilus either through the file menu or the context sensitive menu when you right click on a file or folder.
  • It actually prompts me for my pgp key passphrase, unlike GPA!

Next I might look into encrypting whole partitions. I know this can be done during the install process using the Anaconda installer with Fedora but from the pages I’ve read it seems that to encrypt a partition after install is considerably harder, plus all the data on the partition is lost during the process so it’s not a simple procedure.

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