Encryption in Emacs - EasyPG Assistant

EasyPG Assistant provides the following features.

• Key management.
• Cryptographic operations on regions.
• Cryptographic operations on files.
• Dired integration.
• Mail-mode integration.
• Automatic encryption/decryption of *.gpg files.

EasyPG Assistant commands are prefixed by ‘epa-’. For example,

• SPC SPC epa-list-keys browse your keyring
• SPC SPC epa-sign-region create a cleartext signature of the region
• SPC SPC epa-encrypt-file encrypt a file

automatic encryption/decryption of *.gpg files is configured in Spacemacs

Common uses

• Encrypting org mode files
• Encrypting personal access tokens and passwords, e.g authinfo.gpg