With OpenPGP Applet you can encrypt text with a passphrase using the passphrase encryption of OpenPGP.
When using OpenPGP Applet to encrypt emails, non-ASCII characters (for example non-Latin characters or characters with accents) might not display correctly to the recipients of the email.
If you are going to encrypt emails often, we recommend you to set up Thunderbird instead.
Write your text in a text editor. Do not write it in the web browser!
Click on OpenPGP Applet and choose to open 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.