Seahorse is a GNOME application for managing PGP keys. Seahorse project also integrates with nautilus, gedit and other places for encryption, decryption and other operations. Seahorse is based on GPG and GPGME.

Seahorse 2.0 will provide a consistent encryption system throughout the GNOME desktop environment. This will give users a seamlessly integrated way for common encryption tasks.

This also means that Seahorse is not just a single application, but rather a set of libraries and plugins. The goal is to make encryption tasks easier for the average user.

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Here are some key features of "Seahorse":

· Manage your keys and keyring
· Synchronize your keys and your keyring with keyservers
· Sign keys and publish
· Cache your passphrase so you don't have to keep typing it
· Backup your keys and keyring
· more...

Requirements:

· GnuPG 1.2
· GPGME 1.0.x

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Support for PKCS#11 key generation
· Support for creating certificate requests
· Certificate actions happen from certificate window.
· Reimplement export functionality
· Refactor deletion, unlocking, refreshing, and showing properties
· Add way to lookup places, and refresh appropriate place after import
· Fixes for glib 2.31.x deprecations
· Fix bugs, build issues, translations