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GnuPG Extensions for Enhanced Digital Privacy in GNOME Environment

Calendar Sep 17, 2007 • User Avatar Anthony Pell
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The GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) allows you to encrypt, decrypt, sign, and verify communications and data, as well as create and manage the keys needed for these tasks. It is a full, open source implementation of the OpenPGP Standard (RFC2440) and is integrated into many Linux applications ranging from clipboard applets to instant messaging clients. These applications make it easy to use GnuPG for digital security in the GNOME desktop environment. Most user's don't use any form of encryption when sending information over the Internet. Is the problem that it's not alway easy to use encryption? However, with theses GnuPG plugins user's can easily protect all their Internet traffic without touching the command line.

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