Manage OpenPGP Keys

Traill · August 3rd, 2005, 5:19 PM

I've seen this icon at the bottom of cPanel - manage openPGP keys - what are they, and how do they work? I've figured out mostly all the other stuff on there but this one looks potentially useful if only I knew what it does!

Thanks everyone, sorry if it's an obvious question...

**Ancyru** · August 4th, 2005, 8:44 AM

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PGP
(Pretty Good Privacy) A data encryption program from PGP Corporation, Palo Alto, CA (www.pgp.com). Published as freeware in 1991 and widely used around the world for encrypting e-mail messages and securing files, PGP is available for commercial use and as freeware for personal use. Freeware versions are also available from www.pgpi.org.

For e-mail, PGP sends the key and the encrypted message at the same time. It encrypts the key using a public key algorithm such as RSA and encrypts the message using a secret key algorithm such as IDEA (the original), CAST5, Triple DES and AES. On the receiving side, the secret key (using the public key method) is decrypted first so it can be used to decrypt the message. PGP also supports digital signatures and PKI.

PGP was developed by Phil Zimmermann, founder of Pretty Good Privacy, Inc., San Mateo, CA. For his pioneering work in cryptography, Zimmermann has received numerous awards (his personal Web site is www.philzimmermann.com). In 1997, Network Associates acquired his company. Also in that year, the IETF formed the OpenPGP working group to support an open standard based on PGP. In 2002, the PGP assets from Network Associates were acquired by the newly formed PGP Corporation, where Zimmermann is a consultant to the company.

How it is used? I have no idea.

**tch3** · August 6th, 2005, 2:59 PM

I don't know what functionality cPanel has with PGP keys. I use GnuPG (http://gnupg.org) to encrypt and sign emails (with the Enigmail plugin for Thunderbird) and files, but that's on my computer, not on the server.

Edit: Wow. I didnt' realize cPanel would read the .gnupg directory in my home directory. That would make sense, though. Now, what functionality I can get out of that, I dunno.

Can we sign and encrypt files on the server through cPanel? I haven't seen that sort of feature.

Clair

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tch3 Destroyer of Evil Robots Excelling Contributor Joined in Oct 2003 Lives in Atlanta, GA 760 posts Gave thanks: 17 Thanked 9 times	I don't know what functionality cPanel has with PGP keys. I use GnuPG (http://gnupg.org) to encrypt and sign emails (with the Enigmail plugin for Thunderbird) and files, but that's on my computer, not on the server. Edit: Wow. I didnt' realize cPanel would read the .gnupg directory in my home directory. That would make sense, though. Now, what functionality I can get out of that, I dunno. Can we sign and encrypt files on the server through cPanel? I haven't seen that sort of feature. Clair Last edited by tch3; August 6th, 2005 at 3:01 PM..

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