Enigmail - how to encrypt only part of the message?

Posted by Lukasz Zaroda on Ask Ubuntu See other posts from Ask Ubuntu or by Lukasz Zaroda
Published on 2012-10-28T20:01:55Z Indexed on 2012/10/29 11:18 UTC
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When I confirmed my OpenPGP key on launchpad I got a mail from them, that was only partially encrypted with my key (only few paragraphs inside the message). Is it possible to encrypt only chosen part of the message with Enigmail? Or what would be the easiest way to accomplish it?

Added #1:

I found a pretty convenient way for producing ASCII armoured encrypted messages by using Nautilus interface (useful for ones that for some reason doesn't like to work with terminal). You need to install Nautilus-Actions Configuration Tool, and add there a script with a name eg. "Encrypt in ASCII" and parameters:

path: gpg

parameters: --batch -sear %x %f

The trick is that now you can create file, with extension that would be name of your recipient, you can then fill it with your message, right click it in Nautilus, choose "Encrypt in ASCII", and you will have encrypted ascii file which content you can (probably) just copy to your message.

But if anybody knows more convenient solution please share it.

Added #1B:

In the above case if you care more about security of your messages, It's worth to turning off invisible backup files that gedit creates every time, you create new document, or just remember to delete them.

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