GPG Keychain Access

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for version 0.7.0.1

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Introduction

This is a simple key management program for GNU Privacy Guard. It has a GUI and does some basic things. You'll have to go to the command line for real power, though.

You'll need GNU Privacy Guard for OS X installed. You can get it from http://www.gnupg.org/.

Instructions

Usage is simple. GPG Keychain Access will list your keys and then you can do stuff with them. You can also import and export keys. Some actions, like importing and exporting, are nice and integrated. Other features cannot be implemented fully, though, so Terminal will be started up and you'll be able to do what you want (the command you want will be run for you). At most you might have an interactive interface. At least, you'll be asked for your password. When done, just close the Terminal window that was created.

Known Issues

Frequently Asked Questions

Why does GPG Keychain seem to freeze for a few seconds when I try to use some commands under the Keys and GPG menus?
GPG Keychain pauses while AppleScript talks to Terminal to start up GPG running an appropriate command. This is intended as a feature, so that you know that GPG Keychain is working. Most of the time you'll get a spinning cursor to illustrate this, but sometimes you don't. Just wait for a few more seconds and it should be working. If it has been a minute or more, something is probably the matter and you should go ahead and force quit GPG Keychain.

Contact

This application is the result of the combined efforts of the Mac GPG project, which can be found Online at http://macgpg.sourceforge.net. Either visit the Web site for contact information or try rhwood@users.sourceforge.net.