I can’t decide what I think about the following implementation so I decided to throw it out here. Any thoughts are welcome. In a previous post I wrote about our wrapper around Bouncy Castle PGP encryption. Turned out it worked pretty well except one little problem. The PGP implementation on the receiving end would complain about our signature. In despair I even posted (and later answered) a question on StackOverflow. :-) The problem was that they use an old version of a PGP library that couldn’t...
On a recent project here at Renaissance , we needed to send files over FTP to some third party vendor. One of the requirements was that the files had to be encrypted using PGP (Pretty Good Privacy). After some research we decided to use Bouncy Castle . Bouncy Castle is an open source C# implementation of the OpenPGP standard. It is available in Java as well. An additional requirement was that the PGP Encrypted files needed to be signed as well. If you have no background in cryptology or PGP and this...