Gpg4win
GnuPG packaged for Windows with the Kleopatra key manager, for signing and encrypting files and email.
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About Gpg4win
Gpg4win is the Windows distribution of GNU Privacy Guard. It bundles GnuPG itself with Kleopatra, a certificate and key manager, plus GpgOL for Outlook and GpgEX for the Explorer right-click menu, so you can generate a key pair, exchange public keys and sign or encrypt files without touching a command line.
It is free software made up of several independently developed packages under different licences, most of them the GNU GPL. Development has been funded in part by Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security.
Strengths
- Kleopatra gives GnuPG a real key manager instead of a command line
- Integrates with Outlook through GpgOL and with Explorer through GpgEX
- Interoperates with any other OpenPGP implementation, on any platform
- Long-running project with public funding behind its security work
Limitations
- Windows only
- OpenPGP key management is genuinely hard, and the concepts do not hide well behind a GUI
- Made of several packages under different licences, so the licensing is not one simple answer
- Email encryption only helps when the other side also uses it
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree software, funded by donations and public contracts.
- License
- GPL-2.0
- Developer
- Intevation GmbH and g10 Code GmbH
- Platforms
- Windows
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Account
- Not required
- Works offline
- Yes
- Best suited for
- Signing or encrypting files and mail on Windows with standard OpenPGP keys
- Categories
- Encryption tools
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Selected from the TechWalrus downloads catalog (Security); facts checked against the developer's own pages, 6 sources on file.
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