About

Seahorse is a GNOME application for managing encryption keys. It also integrates with nautilus, gedit and other places for encryption, decryption and other operations.

With seahorse you can...

Encrypt/decrypt/sign files and text.
Manage your keys and keyring
Synchronize your keys and your keyring with key servers
Sign keys and publish
Cache your passphrase so you don't have to keep typing it
Backup your keys and keyring
Add an image in any GDK supported format as a OpenGPG photo ID
Create SSH keys, configure them, cache them
more...

NEWS: This Just In!

NEWS

Who Are We?

Nate Nielsen - Maintainer
Adam Schreiber - Maintainer
Jim Pharis - Usability and Interfaces

Download Seahorse

Visit our download page.

Installing Seahorse

For distro maintainers, and astute users:

Integrating seahorse properly into the login session.

Getting Started Developing

Pick a simple bug from Bugzilla and grab the code from CVS. Join the developer mailing list and start asking questions. We attempt to keep our bug list well serviced. There's usually someone hanging out in #Seahorse on irc.freenode.net (irc://irc.freenode.net/#Seahorse). In general, we target the last two major GNOME releases that are stable and try not to break compatibility with either by adding new dependencies. For example, if 2.14.x is the latest stable GNOME release, you cannot depend on anything that is not in 2.12.x as well. Some exceptions can be made, but will require discussion on the mailing list first.

To receive bug and enhancement updates by email set your email settings in Bugzilla by adding the user seahorse-maint@gnome.bugs to your watch list.

There is now a --enable-debug option at compile time to give more detailed debugging information. This will make all GTK messages WARNING and above fatal.

Documentation on GConf keys that are used by Seahorse but not exposed to the user can be found on Seahorse/SpecialGconfKeys.

Documentation on the trust model supported by Seahorse can be found on Seahorse/TrustModel.

Code Structure

agent/	Code related to providing passphrase caching
daemon/	Code that wraps the agent and provides DNS-SD keyserver and DBUS functionality
help/C/	Files related to the Seahorse manual
libcryptui	A simple API for key selection
libseahorse	Code that provides common functionality to all parts of seahorse
pixmaps	Where all seahorse specific graphics are stored
plugins/applet	Contains Encryption Applet Code
plugins/epiphany	Contains code for an Epiphany plugin
plugins/gedit	Contains Gedit plugin code
plugins/nautilus	Contains code for seahorse-tool and seahorse-preferences
plugins/nautilus-ext	Contains code for calling seahorse-tool from Nautilus
src	Code for the seahorse key manager

Libseahorse Object Hierarchy

  GObject
   +--GtkTreeStore
       +--SeahorseKeyModel                   Allows associating a key with
                                               row in a tree.
           +--SeahorseKeyManagerStore        Displays a list of keys for the main
                                               seahorse key manager and search results.
   +--GtkObject
       +--SeahorseContext                    Singleton. Manages the list of loaded keys
       +--SeahorseKey                        Base class for all keys.
           +--SeahorsePGPKey                 An OpenPGP key (from GPGME)
           +--SeahorseSSHKey                 An SSH key
           +--SeahorseUnknownKey             A key we have no information about, but
                                               which exists somewhere.
   +--SeahorseKeyset                         Allows one to query and track a certain
                                               subset of keys in the SeahorseContext.
   +--SeahorseKeySource                      Base class. A key source adds keys to 
                                               the SeahorseContext
       +--SeahorsePGPSource                  Retrieves OpenPGP keys from the local 
                                               keyring (uses GPGME).
       +--SeahorseServerSource               Base class for key sources that retrieve
                                               keys from servers.
           +--SeahorseHKPSource              Retrieve/searches for keys on HKP servers.
           +--SeahorseLDAPSource             Retrieve/searches for keys on LDAP servers.
       +--SeahorseSSHSource                  Retrieves SSH keys from ~/.ssh
       +--SeahorseUnknownSource              A source of SeahorseUnknownKey type keys
   +--SeahorseOperation                      Base class for an asynchronous operation.
       +--SeahorsePGPOperation               An operation on a GPGME context
       +--SeahorseSSHOperation               An SSH related operation
       +--SeahorseTransferOperation          An operation which copies keys from one
                                               keysource to another
   +--SeahorseServiceDiscovery               Adds/removes key sources for DNS-SD key 
                                               shares
   +--SeahorseWidget                         Allows loading and displaying of windows 
                                               based on glade files
       +--SeahorseKeyWidget                  Associate a SeahorseKey with a 
                                               SeahorseWidget window

New features in the development version

DNS-SD HKP Key server
seahorse-daemon succeeds seahorse-agent
Themable Icon Support
- Tangofied Icons: 22x22, 48x48, scalable
Photo ID support
- Scrollwheeling through photo IDs
- Drag and Drop adding of photo IDs
- Basic photo editing
SSH Key Support
- Generate SSH keys
- Upload SSH keys
- SSH Key Agent (gnome-keyring integration)
Encryption Applet - panel applet to encrypt/decrypt/sign/verify/import the clipboard
DBUS interface
GNOME keyring integration
Epiphany plugin

To Do (Grand Plans and Quackery)

General

Support X.509 certificates
Allow searching for and importing keys from the 'choose recipients' dialog.

Photo ID Support

Integrate photo IDs with About Me capplet and Evolution contacts.

Plugins

E-plugin to make Evolution GPG encryption use seahorse
Gaim plugin - Development Discussion

seahorse-applet

Global Key Bindings: Borrow from Tomboy - http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/tomboy/libtomboy/

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