Text Editor Integration

Passwords and Encryption Keys integrates with the gedit text editor. You can quickly encrypt, decrypt, sign, and verify text directly in the text editor.

[Note]Enabling Text Editor Integration

The package seahorse-plugins-gedit has to be installed to enable file manager integration. The plugin has to be enabled in gedit by choosing Edit+Preferences+Plugins and checking Text Encryption.

Encrypting Text in gedit

  1. In gedit, select the text you want to encrypt.

  2. From menu, select Edit+Encrypt.

  3. Select the people (recipients) you want to encrypt the file to, then click OK.

Signing Text in gedit

  1. In gedit, select the text you want to sign.

  2. From menu, select Edit+Sign.

  3. Select a signer, then click OK.

  4. If prompted, specify the passphrase of your private key, then click OK.

Decrypting Text and Verifying Its Signatures

  1. In gedit, select the text you want to decrypt or the text which signature you want to verify.

  2. From menu, select Edit+Decrypt/Verify.