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Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) is a data encryption and decryption computer program that provides cryptographic privacy and authentication for data communication.

Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) is a data encryption and decryption computer program that provides cryptographic privacy and authentication for data communication. PGP is often used for signing, encrypting and decrypting texts, E-mails, files, directories and whole disk partitions to increase the security of e-mail communications. It was created by Phil Zimmermann in 1991.

PGP and similar products follow the OpenPGP standard (RFC 4880) for encrypting and decrypting data.

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How to use GNUPG and Crypt_GPG

I'm trying to use GNUPG and Crypt_GPG to encrypt data ready to be sent across email to a client server but i'm having problems setting it up. I've installed GNUPG on the server, and it works just fine, located in /home/myserver/.gnupg I've…
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Reading an email address from a Bouncy Castle PGP key

After fighting with the library for some time, I am at a loss for how to get this simple piece of data from a PgpPublicKey object. I've tried the most obvious route, GetUserAttributes() but it returns an empty list. GetUserIds() returns a list of…
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Fix Gpg4Win PGP encrypted binary files corrupted by upload to CoreFTP server using VB .NET

This post is similar to an earlier post about preventing the corruption of PGP binary files when transferring those files to an FTP server using C# (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7353993/ftp-changing-pgp-file-during-transfer-in-c-sharp), though…
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Crypt::OpenPGP Symkey decrypt failed: Invalid secret key ID

I am having a problem where Crypt::OpenPGP is unable to decrypt a message encoded by GPG. It seems that I am not the first to have this problem. But no solution was found on that thread. my $pgp = load_class('Crypt::OpenPGP')->new; $pgp->handle( …
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PGP Freeware and c#

How to encrypt file with public key, that was added to current keyring, with using c# and command line? Thanks.
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Approach for ASP.NET, HTTP/S and PGP framework

Scenario: Multiple clients to upload files to server over HTTP/S. Files are to be encrypted with company public key, for later decryption with company private key on a different environment. On upload, files are dropped (encrypted with company…
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Encryption with PGP key

I was recently assigned to task to encrypt some data and send it to our server. I found some valuable resources on the internet but they all require a public key, private key and secret password for the encryption. Please is there any simple way I…
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Open source or otherwise pgp/gpg library for Android/iphone/ipad

This is probably time-sensitive, unless there's a project currently providing a standard. Is there a tested library for android and iOS that provides a PGP/GPG implementation for decrypting data received over a web-request? I am looking to secure…
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Attachment extension names in PGP encrypted email

I develop the open source library django-email-extras which allows you to add email addresses and their associated PGP keys to the database, which will then encrypt those emails if they're sent to, including attachments. When I originally developed…
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What is the difference b/w .pkr and .key file with respect to PGP?

I am working on PGP encryption/decryption using 'bouncycastle'. Do encrypt I understand that i need a public key. I have a text file which is supposed to be the public key. Should this be rename as .pkr or .key file? What different the 2 extentions…
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Will it be an over-kill for a mobile device to use PGP?

I am looking forward to develop a secure mobile application. I find my needs getting full-filled with PGP. Since pgp includes full data encryption (symmetric-key). So, is PGP a viable solution for mobile applications? (Computation power wise) I plan…
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Using mutiple keys for Bouncy Castle C# API

I am writing a program in C# to encrypt files with a private and public pgp key. I am very new to PGP and C# but I am getting a hang of it. Can some point me in the right direction on how to use Bouncy Castle C# API to use multiple keys.
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Mac PGP WDE emergency recovery procedures

This is really more of a serverfault/IT question, but I am not part of the beta. Equipment / Topology: MacBook Pro (Running OSX) 4GB RAM Used for email, web browsing, basicly everything that isn't Visual Studio or a MS app. VMWare Fusion VMs…
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Compatibility between OpenPGP and ObjectivePGP

Building an encrypted system which uses openPGP for keys generation, encryption, decryption for browsers and ObjectivePGP for ios app for the same functions. The issue I am facing is when I generate keys using objectivePGP on my ios app and try to…
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Python PGP Encrypt with Public Key

Python PGP Encrypt with Public Key I already tried with PGP, but it showed an error with my public key, then I tried with another one and I didn’t have any problem, but it still showed me and error with my Public Key. The Public Key’s provider told…
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