Re: PGP encryption.

I know I am missing something. Why is PGP encryption needed? Using
sftp is already encrypted.

I can understand using PGP or GnuPGP if plain FTP is used.

Thanks,

John McKee

On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

9K....Yowsers!

Even more reason to use GnuPGP...

It's compatible with PGP...

On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Vernon Hamberg
<vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I've heard yesterday that Symantec now owns PGP and charges for it - an
enterprise license is like $9000 - my son is working for a union here
that has a partner who wants them to use PGP, then SFTP.

So I checked with our security guru, and he says, yes, you need to pay now.

I don't know how Linoma deals with this - whether they have some kind of
deal with Symantec.

Our guy said that each customer is assigned a shared key by Symantec.
This has to be given to anyone who needs to decrypt the data. You'd need
to get that shared key from whomever is sending you stuff, I believe.

That's all I know - and I also won't say how I feel about Symantec!!

HTH
Vern

On 7/20/2012 1:15 PM, Charles Wilt wrote:

Check your Linoma software...they might already have it...

Otherwise
http://www.iprodeveloper.com/article/application-development/using-gnupg-for-pgp-on-i-64370
http://www.scottklement.com/gnupg/

As far as key, they can be either or...as the receiver I'd expect the
partner to be using your public key that you'd need to provide
directly or publish.

HTH,
Charles

On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 1:53 PM, <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

We have a trading partner who wants to encrypt a file using PGP
encryption. Then he will send it to us via our SFTP site (set up using
Linoma software). Once the transmission is complete we have to decrypt
it. There's two questions that first pop to mind:
1 - Are PGP keys like SSL keys where you get them from a trusted source
for a fee or are they something that you get from some open source type
site for nothing?
2 - How does one decrypt a file on the i that is PGP encrypted?


Rob Berendt
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