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

learn more… | top users | synonyms

0
votes
0answers
6 views

Unable to see user on Windows login except PGP SSO, how to fix?

My hard disk is PGP encrypted. I restored my system 2-3 times and on restart my Windows 7 boots normally. But on login screen, it upfront gave me error "Incorrect User or Password". And it shows PGP ...
1
vote
1answer
9 views

PGP Encryption/Decryption issue & Integrity methods

We had a process that ran for almost 3 years with no problems until last week. We tried to generate an encrypted file and it successfully made it, but on decryption, it gave us this error: It's ...
-1
votes
0answers
12 views

PGP keyservers over http [closed]

How can I configure PGP Desktop to use the PGP Online directory keyservers over http/https and using a system proxy?
0
votes
1answer
57 views

Why must a machine be decrypted from PGP before it can be reimaged? Or have I been misinformed?

At work we had to re-image several laptops which all had PGP encryption on them. Why is it necessary to decrypt the disk before remaining (using Clonezilla)? Doesn't it just overwrite the entire hard ...
0
votes
2answers
17 views

Verifying files with GPG, without a .sig or .asc file, and with only a key id and fingerprint?

From my limited knowledge of PGP/GPG, one must have 2 things to verify a file: The file's "signature" (essentially a hash of the file encrypted with the trusted entity's private key; normally ...
1
vote
2answers
62 views

Is it possible to associate a secondary email address with an existing *public* key?

For example, if I have a friend's public key that's associated with, say, email address john@domain.com, but I want to send him a message at john@other.net, is there a sensible way to do this? Is ...
0
votes
2answers
33 views

ftp with pgp key

I am a LINUX user. I need to upload some files to a second server. This one uses PGP as security and I received a PGP key. Am I wrong when I say that I cannot use the ordinary FTP client program with ...
1
vote
1answer
36 views

Free replacement for PGP Desktop

A few years ago I used to use PGP Desktop unfortunately Symantec bought this excellent program and now wants a lot of money for Symantec Encryption Desktop Professional. Does anybody know of a free ...
7
votes
5answers
241 views

Infer PGP private key using an encoded decoded sample

If I have both an encoded message and its original, is it possible to infer the private key?
0
votes
2answers
38 views

How to prevent an openPGP key from being uploaded to a keyserver?

Is there flag or something in an openPGP key that can be used to communicate my wish that this key should never be uploaded to a keyserver? If not, can I create a key that is broken in such a way ...
0
votes
2answers
34 views

GPG4WIN Keys and Transferring them

I have installed www.gpg4win.org and have generated a keys that will allow me to both sign and encrypt files. On windows it uses the (KDE) / Kleopatra Certificate Manager - Version 2.1.0. What is the ...
2
votes
1answer
108 views

PGP encrypt single message for multiple recipients

Is it possible to encrypt a message using PGP so that multiple recipients (each with their own public private keypair) can decrypt it? I'd like to email one message which can be decrypted by each ...
0
votes
1answer
63 views

PGP encrypted external Toshiba drive

I encrypted my external hard drive, a 350 GB Toshiba with PGP disk encryption and i forgot the password. Question: Is it possible to use a brute force attack (considering i know part of the password), ...
0
votes
3answers
241 views

Can I access keyboard history without a keylogger?

By accident I wrongly typed a password (twice) that I completely forgot, when I was encrypting my external Toshiba drive with PGP Disk. I have no backup, nor *.krp files to repair my key, but I am ...
1
vote
2answers
116 views

Is it possible using symmetric encryption to encrypt a file with two different keys?

GPG/PGP and other public key encryptions allow encrypting to several recipients using their public keys. Is it possible to use only symmetric encryption to do that same? In other words is it possible ...
5
votes
1answer
149 views

PGP (GnuPG) - what was the original filename?

John wants to send 1.txt to Paul. He encrypts it. Now the file is named myFile.pgp, and he sends it to Paul. Paul gets the file. How (if possible) can Paul know what the original file name (1.txt) ...
0
votes
0answers
193 views

PGP Desktop Whole disk Encryption paused on a toshiba ultrabook z935

I have a Toshiba z930 Ultrabook with PGP Desktop installed for whole disk encryption. It installed correctly, and started encrypting but it stays paused. If I reboot, it shows me the PGP desktop ...
0
votes
1answer
64 views

Does the right half of the rsa public key matter?

In a public key file "id_rsa.pub" generated by ssh-keygen, does the part after the == matter? I ask because when I changed "root@somedomain.com" to "root", it seems to still work. More generally, I ...
0
votes
1answer
404 views

gpg: import failure key xxxxxxxx: no valid user IDs

i am getting this error while importing a public key on gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.2 gpg: armor header: Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) gpg: pub xxxxx/xxxxxxxx 2012-05-25 abcd xyz <email@address.com> ...
0
votes
1answer
35 views

Sign PGP key to which I added identity once again (i.e. also sign new identities)

I am using the Key Management dialog of Enigmail (in Thunderbird) to manage my keys, as it's more convenient than command line, but also more stable than the GnuPG alternative (Kleopatra). So now I ...
0
votes
1answer
940 views

PGP 6.5.8 on Windows 7 x64 [closed]

I've successfully installed and use PGP 6.5.8 on my Win7 x64 Ultimate box, but I've been unsuccessful installing it on two separate machines running Win7 Home Premium x64. Does anyone know why this ...
2
votes
2answers
55 views

how to verify the trust path to a gpg key?

I want to check whether the gpg key used by Julien Danjou for his emacs snapshot repository can be trusted. There are many trust paths from my key to Juliens key. But I can't believe that there ...
0
votes
0answers
151 views

Hide PGP signature in Outlook 2010/13

I would like to hide the PGP signature part of incoming emails in my outlook client. What I mean is on this incoming mail: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 testrawegserzshz -----BEGIN ...
0
votes
1answer
88 views

How to embed an ASCII logo into an ASCII-armored RSA key?

The cryptoparty site publishes an RSA key with an ASCII art logo embedded in it. Is there a way to put arbitrary characters in an ASCII-armored RSA key? From https://github.com/cryptoparty/handbook ...
8
votes
1answer
553 views

How to manage GPG keys across multiple systems?

I'm new to using GnuPG and trying to understand how best to use it. I've reviewed Short, easy to understand explanation of GPG/PGP for nontechnical people?, but most guides explain PGP with a ...
2
votes
1answer
46 views

How do you deal with PGP + Drafts in Thunderbird?

I'm having trouble trying to setup a secure email client. I have marked an option to always encrypt emails by default. But they only get encrypted right before being sent, so sometimes a draft is ...
3
votes
1answer
142 views

How can I use a PGP key on Windows to sign/verify and encrypt/decrypt documents?

Occasionally I need to encrypt a file, cryptographically sign something, etc. GNU PG and PGP are good tools for this, but how can I get them working on Windows? When I try to search for an installer, ...
2
votes
1answer
268 views

Simple PGP encryption in one step?

I would like to run gpg encryption on a file without having to register the keys with the system at all. Ideally, there would be a way to pass in a path to the key file and have the encryption run on ...
3
votes
2answers
304 views

if one doesn't care about protecting a gpg secret key, is it still as secure as using gpg --symmetric?

Each of Alice and Bob is using gpg just to protect his/her own personal files and not using it as a way to send encrypted text to others. Alice has generated a key (gpg --gen-key) that she uses to ...
2
votes
1answer
71 views

Sending an encrypted email to a public key

A person I wish to contact, posted his public key as his contact info. I have setup Thunderbird and generated my on key pairs but I am missing something. I do not understand how to use just his public ...
0
votes
0answers
115 views

How do I save someone else's pgp key

Just installed Gpg-4win-Light 2.1.0 for the first time. How do I save someone else's pgp key so that I can find and import it?
2
votes
3answers
633 views

Does the use of Tor makes additional encryption unnecessary?

I know Tor uses encryption to guarantee anonymity, but I if wish to guarantee the privacy of my conversations should I use an additional layer of encryption? Can my home router or ISP intercept Tor ...
1
vote
0answers
45 views

Encrypt nullmailer/ssmtp using PGP?

I need smtp for mdadm and other alerts but i don't want to maintain my own postifix/dovecot is there an easy way to automatically encrypt mail with PGP and send it out using an external SMTP and then ...
2
votes
1answer
438 views

Do PGP private key blocks “contain” the public key as well?

I've noticed that if I import my ASCII-armored PGP private key into an otherwise empty GnuPG keyring (by deleting ~/.gnupg beforehand), the keyring contains both the public and private keys. Also, the ...
0
votes
1answer
235 views

PGP on linux suse

The following script works on a windows server : pgp --encrypt TESTDIR\TESTPgp.txt -r issucnc Exit How would I make the same code to work on a linux server if I wanted to transfer a file from linux ...
0
votes
1answer
2k views

Using the GNUPG Encrypt Command on Windows 7 Professional

I am using the Windows port of GNU Privacy Guard "light" release for version 1.0.9 installed on a windows 7 professional laptop. Installed in the default directory of : C:\Program Files ...
2
votes
1answer
606 views

Microsoft Word and digital signatures using PGP?

I have a document for a project that I am working on with my team, and I need to digitally sign the document in a way that can be verified by other members of the team. The catch is, internally, we ...
0
votes
2answers
762 views

PGP command-line program t be called from script or batch file?

I am seeking a freeware, open-source, or fairly cheap PGP Command Line app which can do PGP file encryption. It should be a Windows solution, and should be able to be called at the command-line, ...
0
votes
2answers
3k views

Is it possible to run pgp 6.5.8 freeware on Windows 7 64 bit machine?

I am trying to get the PGP Command Line -Freeware Version 6.5.8 by Networks Associates working on a Wndows 7 64 bit machine. Does anyone know if it is possible? I installed it in C:\pgp when i run ...
0
votes
2answers
375 views

What is the file format for storing PGP private keys?

I tried to understand it from RFC and from source code (mainly from gnupg and gpgme) and I didn't get the way the data should be stored when someone export secret keys. I know there should be ...
0
votes
1answer
2k views

How to extract files from pgp file

I have a a.zip.pgp file along with an key.asc file. How can I extract the files from a.zip.pgp ? I have tried the following:- $ gpg --import key.asc then $ gpg --decrypt-files a.zip.pgp gpg: ...
0
votes
1answer
34 views

Creating and evaluating digital signed signatures for authentication etc

This question is triggered by an email from Microsoft this morning about a security bulletin. It started with -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 and ended with a PGP signature. I've ...
0
votes
2answers
629 views

Formatting OpenSSL encrypted message, and signature in the same plaintext file

I'm working on designing an API which requires encrypted messages to be signed and sent over TLS. The TLS is HTTP/SSL. The messages themselves are a few hundred Kb (at most) of JSON data, encrypted ...
0
votes
1answer
102 views

Can't check PGP signature for the Linux kernel source package

Just now I downloaded the latest Linux kernel from the official site. With it I downloaded the .sign file. I found instructions on-line for how to check the file against the PGP signature. It's the ...
2
votes
3answers
3k views

PGP Whole Disk Encryption (WDE) - how to image/backup the boot partition?

On Windows 7, I would like to backup the system partition. The whole disk, including the partition, has just been encrypted with PGP 10.1.2 SP3 (I'm obliged to use precisely this software for ...
2
votes
2answers
2k views

Public/Private key locations with Enigmail and Thunderbird on Windows

Sorry if this is a simple answered question, I just cannot find what I'm looking for. I'd like to find the location of my public/private key combinations on my Windows machine that I made through ...
1
vote
1answer
135 views

Is Data Object on openPGP smartcard v2 encrypted?

Currently I thinking about on-the-fly disk encryption using Truecrypt/dmcrypt LUKS with key stored on smartcard. I would like to use openPGP v2 smart card, respectively GPF Cryptostick which is based ...
4
votes
1answer
54 views

When I've signed a key with GPG, how do I send this information to a keyserver?

I just signed a friend's public key using gpg --sign-key. How can I send the signed key back to the key server, so that other people can see that I've signed it?
1
vote
3answers
427 views

Send an encrypted mail via telnet

I've got a public OpenPGP key and need to send an encrypted email using telnet. However, I'm unable to find anything related to this topic. I have no problem sending an email via telnet, but cannot ...
5
votes
1answer
1k views

Are files encrypted with gpg compatible with pgp?

Are files encrypted with gpg compatible with pgp? What about the other way? I recently learned the very basics of the procedures of using gpg to encrypt and decrypt files. But I don't have a lot of ...

1 2