It doesn't make sense to have a decrpyt and verify button on the Compose screen.

Then the Encrypt link shows up at the left end of that row of links and icons.Ģ) The decrypt and verify icons are at the upper top right of the message area when reading email. Give it a try, and let us know if you have bugs, comments, complaints or suggestions.įor everyone not seeing the Encrypt, Decrypt and Verify buttons in Gmail (like me at first), here's what's up.ġ) To encrypt, you need to click 'Plain Text' at the end of the Rich Text editing buttons. When you receive an encrypted email, simply click on 'Decrypt Message'.ĭecrypting an email requires access to your private key (which is usually password protected.) Enter the password, Click 'OK' and you should be good to go. (If we have the recipients public key,) simply clicking this should encrypt the mail to the recipient as seen below. When typing an email in GMail, we should now see an additional link: 'Encrypt Message' The other convenience functions enabled through the lock icon allow you to do simple gpg key management, encrypt and sign blocks of text. You can return to these options through the extensions window or by clicking the lock icon added to your browser chrome (cr-gpg will do some basic sanity checking on your options). If you would like to be able to read the mails as well, then simply select this option (and enter your email address in the next field: 'Encrypt to self Email Address') I would be unable to read this mail though (since it has been encrypted with your public key, not mines). If i encrypt (and send) an email to you, the encrypted email will be in my sent-items. The 'Encrypt to self' option is fairly self explanatory. You should be able to click 'Use Default' on most installations. (We make some effort to ensure that the temp directory is well maintained). Option therefore is asking where it can find the gpg executable, and Option is looking for a scratch directory to do its work). (cr-gpg simply calls out to the gpg installation on your machine. Once you have installed the plugin, there are 2 required configuration options:Ģ) Temp folder path (writable by the browser) You can grab the extension from and a double click should install it, after the install is completed you should see the image above if you navigate to chrome://extensions :

Chrome extension for gpg mail