GPGTools is an installation package for Apple OS X (10.6) with software tools for email and file encryption (similar to Gpg4win

Gpg4win

Gpg4win is an installation package for Windows with software tools and manuals for email and file encryption. Gpg4win itself and all tools of Gpg4win are free and open source software....

 for Windows). GPGTools itself and all tools of GPGTools are free and open source software

Free and open source software

Free and open-source software or free/libre/open-source software is software that is liberally licensed to grant users the right to use, study, change, and improve its design through the availability of its source code...

. The aim of the GPGTools project is to keep an easy to use OS X installation package up-to-date including the crypto software GnuPG and maintain all accompanying tools.

Contents of GPGTools Installer

Software:

• MacGPG: The core, an OS X port of GnuPG.
• GPG Keychain Access: The certificate manager for OpenPGP.
• GPGMail
  GPGMail
  GPGMail is an extension for Apple Mail that provides public key e-mail encryption and signing. GPGMail works under Mac OS and the actual cryptographic functionality is handled by GNU Privacy Guard....
  
  : A plugin for OS X Mail
  Mail (application)
  Mail is an email program included with Apple Inc.'s Mac OS X operating system. Originally developed by NeXT as NeXTMail, a part of their NeXTSTEP operating system, it was adapted, following Apple's acquisition of NeXT, to become OS X's Mail application.Mail uses the SMTP, POP3, and IMAP protocols,...
  
   (email encryption).
• GPGServices
  GPGServices
  GPGServices is a plugin for the global OS X Services menu, which adds the ability to almost any application to use OpenPGP functionalities...
  
  : A services menu
  Services menu
  The Services menu is a user interface element in a computer operating system. The services are programs that accept input from the user selection, process it, and optionally put the result back in the clipboard. The concept originated in the NeXTSTEP operating system, from which it was carried...
  
   (text and file encryption).
• GPGPreferences: A system preference
  System Preferences
  System Preferences is an application included with the Mac OS X operating system that allows users to modify various system settings which are divided into separate preference panes...
  
   to fix the installation after an OS update.
• Enigmail
  Enigmail
  Enigmail is an extension for the Mozilla Application Suite, SeaMonkey internet suite and Mozilla Thunderbird that provides public key e-mail encryption and signing. Enigmail works under Microsoft Windows, Unix-like, and Mac OS operating systems...
  
  : The Mozilla Thunderbird
  Mozilla Thunderbird
  Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and news client developed by the Mozilla Foundation. The project strategy is modeled after Mozilla Firefox, a project aimed at creating a web browser...
  
   plugin (email encryption).

See also

• E-mail privacy
  E-mail privacy
  The protection of email from unauthorized access and inspection is known as electronic privacy. In countries with a constitutional guarantee of the secrecy of correspondence, email is equated with letters and thus legally protected from all forms of eavesdropping.In the United States, privacy of...
  
  
• GnuPG
• OpenPGP
• Pretty Good Privacy
  Pretty Good Privacy
  Pretty Good Privacy is a data encryption and decryption computer program that provides cryptographic privacy and authentication for data communication. PGP is often used for signing, encrypting and decrypting texts, E-mails, files, directories and whole disk partitions to increase the security...
  
  

External links

• GPGTools website
• GNU Privacy Guard website