Con OpenPGP Applet puedes cifrar texto con una frase contraseña usando el cifrado de frases contraseña de OpenPGP.
Cuando uses OpenPGP Applet para cifrar emails, los caracteres no-ASCII (por ejemplo caracteres no-Latinos o caracteres con acentos) podrían no mostrarse correctamente a los remitentes del email.
Si vas a cifrar tus emails frecuentemente, te recomendamos que configures Thunderbird en su lugar.
Escribe tu texto en un editor de texto. ¡No lo escribas en el navegador web!
Haz click en OpenPGP Applet y elige para abrir gedit.
Select with the mouse the text that you want to encrypt. To copy it into the clipboard, right-click (on Mac, click with two fingers) on the selected text and choose from the menu.
OpenPGP Applet now shows lines of text, meaning that the clipboard contains non-encrypted text:
Click on OpenPGP Applet and select from the menu.
If you receive the error message “The clipboard does not contain valid input data”, try to copy your text again, starting from step 2.
In the Passphrase dialog box, enter a passphrase of your choice. Repeat the same passphrase in the second dialog box.
OpenPGP Applet now shows a padlock, meaning that the clipboard contains encrypted text:
To paste the encrypted text into another application, right-click (on Mac, click with two fingers) in the application where you want to paste it and choose
from the menu.For example, you can paste it into the web browser to send it by email.