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I don't understand Seahorse

Asked by Allen

Ok,I have the newest stable version of SeaHorse Password and Encryption Keys. I follow all the steps to make the key, but when I right click the File I want to encrypt, and encrypt it with the key I picked, all it does is make a file like "Filename.gpg" with out the quotation marks. But I can still click the original file and open it liike normal. Why? And what do I need to do to just put a password on certain files with SeaHorse? Thanks! I'm kinda new to linux, I'm a noob.

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Best Seth Arnold (seth-arnold) said : 		#1

Seahorse doesn't presume you want to delete the original file. If you check the filesizes of both files, you'll find that the .gpg version is very slightly larger than the original file. (Maybe same size, if they use a stream cipher instead of a block cipher...)

Move the original file out of the way (just move it to another directory) and then use Seahorse to decrypt your .gpg file. I expect you'll have the original file, unencrypted, as well as the .gpg version of the file.

Seahorse doesn't sound like it offers "transparent" encryption, in the same way eCryptfs can with personal private encrypted storage. But. if you want to manage your encrypted files manually, it seems like a good tool for the job.

I hope this helps.

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Allen (allenlitchfield) said : 		#2

Thanks Seth Arnold, that solved my question.