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 never exported with the public keys. For
  take a look into the GNU Privacy Handbook.
  Just a last work on Key Pairs, they are automatically marked as
  "Ultimate" because the key belongs to you and you trust it implicit.
+ @section The File Manager
+ @subsection Introduction
+ The File Manager is no replacement for an Explorer Extension.
+ If you secure your files frequently and you want to do this
+ fast and easy, I suggest to install GPGee. It is a program
+ which integrates itself into the explorer and provide menu
+ entries in the context menu of files and directory. But the
+ File Manager can be very useful if you just want to decrypt
+ and/or encrypt some files without additional programs. You
+ can find the File Manager via the symbol in the taskbar,
+ right click and then "File Manager".
+ @subsection An Overview of the GUI
+ First there are different ways to add (open) files in the
+ Key Manager. The easiest way is to use drag and drop to
+ add files into the File Manager. Just drag a file from the
+ explorer and drop it into the File Manager window. The second
+ way is to use File->Open. A dialog opens which is common for
+ all "File Open" operations in most Windows application. Now
+ you can select one or more files and confirm. The files will
+ be automatically added to the File Manager window. The main
+ window consists of a listview with three rows.
+ The first row is the status of the file. It can be "ENCRYPTED",
+ "SIGNED", "PUBKEY", "SECKEY", "SIG" or "UNKNOWN". Dependent on
+ the file status, the File Manager offers different choices. For example
+ "SIG" enables the verify options in the (popup) menu. "UNKNOWN" is
+ the default for all plaintext files.
+ The second row is the file name. And the last row is the status of
+ the operation. It can be either "", "SUCCESS" or "FAILED". An empty status
+ means no operation was started yet. FAILED indicates that the
+ GnuPG operation failed. In this case an error message was issued before.
+ Now it follows an example:
+ We assume that user wants to encrypt "c:\My Ideas\GPG GUI.txt".
+ Drag the file from the Explorer and drop it into the open File
+ Manager, the main window. The file will be added and recognized
+ as "UNKNOWN". Now we select the file and right click, a popup
+ menu is shown and we select "Encrypt". An new dialog is opened
+ which looks similar to the Clipboard Encryption dialog. Just
+ select the recipients and confirm. In contrast to clipboard encryption,
+ file encryption offers some more extra options. They are described
+ later. And hour glass will be shown as long as GnuPG takes to encrypt
+ the file. When the procedure is done, the third row should be change
+ to "SUCCESS" and the first row to "ENCRYPTED".
+ @subsection General Options
+ Now we describe the general options which are possible in some
+ File Manager dialogs.
+ @itemize
+ @item Text Output
+ When this option is checked, the output will be encoded in ASCII armor.
+ This can be useful if the file should be transfered via email. The
+ size of the output file is larger than the usual binary output.
+ @item Wipe Original
+ If this option is checked, the original file will be deleted after
+ successfull encryption. This can be useful if data should not be
+ available in plaintext any longer on a machine.
+ @end itemize
  @bye

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