PGP configuration

PGP is available only for File, SFTP from Cloud, connection point.

Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) is an encryption standard that provides cryptographic privacy and authentication for data communication. PGP is used for signing, encrypting, and decrypting texts, emails, files, etc.

PGP encryption uses a serial combination of hashing, data compression, symmetric-key cryptography, and finally public-key cryptography. Each step uses one of several supported algorithms. Each public key is bound to a user name or an email address.

In PGP these two types of keys are used:

  • Public key
    This key is used to encrypt the message. To send encrypted messages you must use the recipients public key to encrypt them.
  • Private key
    This key is used to decrypt the message. The owner has access to the private key, therefore only the owner can decrypt the message.

Sending an encrypted message from Alice to Bob

  1. Bob must have his public an private key pair generated.
  2. Bob gives his public key to Alice.
  3. Alice encrypts the message using the public key from Bob.
  4. Alice sends the message to Bob.
  5. Bob decrypts the message using his private key.

    The two key pairs must be used to ensure bi-directional transmission with PGP.