Installing Gnu Privacy Guard in OS X
Due to the complexity of using Gnu Privacy Guard (GPG), we recommend you use PGP Desktop instead of GPG if you ARE NOT using an Intel processor Mac computer. If you are using an Intel processor Mac computer then you have no choice but to use GPG instead of PGP Desktop because PGP Desktop is currently not available for Intel processor Macs. Unfortunately GNU Privacy Guard is not as user friendly as PGP Desktop so you will need to perform a few more steps to encrypt/decypt files. GNU Privacy Guard does not have a graphical user interface like OS X programs many Mac users are familiar with. In order to provide a familiar graphical interface to GNU Privacy Guard, you can install a front-end for it called GPG Tools. Here are some instructions for install GPG and GPG Tools, if you need further information please contact help@edb.utexas.edu for help.
Install Gnu Privacy Guard
1. Download Mac GNU Privacy Guard.
You can download Mac Gnu Privacy Guard (Mac GnuPG) from the Mac GnuPG website or you can click here to download it from our server.
2. Install Mac GNU Privacy Guard
Double-click the installer to begin the installation process.
Click Continue to proceed with the installation.
Read the Important Information and then click Continue again to proceed.
Read the Software License Agreement and click Continue to proceed.
Agree to the Software License Agreement by clicking the Agree button.
Select the hard drive to install the application onto. Then click Continue.
Click Install to start installing the application onto the hard drive.
Type your username and password and then click OK to install the program. If your username and password will not work, then that means you do not have the necessary privileges to install programs on the computer. Contact the computer's administrator to have the program installed onto it.
Click Close to quit the installer program.
Install GPG Tools
1. Download GPG Tools.
Download it from the GPG Tools website or click here to download it from our server.
2. Install GPG Tools.
Copy it to the Application folder. Open up the Gpg Tools archive file by double-clicking on it.
Open a new finder window by clicking File and then New Finder Window (You may need to click on the desktop once to get the top Finder menu to appear).
Then from the top menu select Go and then select Applications. The new finder window will now change to the Applications folder.
Drag and drop the Gpg Tools program file to the Application folder to copy it over.
An authentication window will appear. Press the Authenticate button.
Type your username and password and then click OK to copy the program into the Applications folder. If your username and password will not work, then that means you do not have the necessary privileges to install programs on the computer. Contact the computer's administrator to have the program installed onto it.
The GPG Tools program file will now be copied into the Applications folder where you can double-click on it to launch it like any other program.
