- Create new OpenPGP keys for yourself

- Manage your OpenPGP private keys and the public keys of others

- Encrypt text with a public key or a passphrase

- Sign text with a private key

- Decrypt and verify text

<p>The [[<i>Thunderbird</i>|anonymous_internet/thunderbird]] email client
allows you to work with OpenPGP encrypted emails. Consider using
<i>Thunderbird</i> instead of <i>Kleopatra</i> if you want to exchange encrypted emails.</p>

<p>The OpenPGP keys stored in <i>Thunderbird</i> are separate from the keys
stored in <i>GnuPG</i> and visible in <i>Kleopatra</i>.</p>

<p>To store your GnuPG keys and configuration across different working sessions,
you can turn on the [[GnuPG|persistent_storage/configure#gnupg]]
feature of the Persistent Storage.</p>

Working with encrypted files

To encrypt a file:

Choose **Sign/Encrypt** from the main window.

Select the file that you want to encrypt.

In the **Sign/Encrypt Files** dialog, either:

Specify which OpenPGP keys you want to encrypt the file to.

Choose **Encrypt with password**.

To decrypt a file:

Choose **Decrypt/Verify** from the main window.

Select the file that you want to decrypt.

Working with encrypted text

<p>It is unsafe to write confidential text in a web browser since JavaScript
attacks can access it from inside the browser. You should rather write and
encrypt your text directly in the notepad of <i>Kleopatra</i> and only paste
the encrypted text in your browser.</p>