Email Encryption with Pretty Good Privacy

PGP (Pretty Good Privacy), originally developed by Phil Zimmerman, is a high security cryptographic software application for MSDOS, UNIX, VAX/VMS, and other computers. PGP allows people to exchange files or messages with privacy, authentication, and convenience.

Installation

PGP is available as part of the Ports Collection.

Implementation

To generate your own public/secret key pair:

% pgpk -g

If you already have a public/secret key pair, you will want to add your existing keys to your Virtual Private Server's key ring:

% pgpk -a [keyfile]

To add PGP to your CGI's do something like the following:

... | pgpe -r <userid> -a -f | mail -s "Encrypted Mail" ...

Another option is the PGP version of FormMail, PGP FormMail.

Documentation

PGP is very well documented and thus very easy to use if you do your homework. All questions sent to the Support Staff with regard to PGP usage will be answered with the URL of this page.

• PGP 5.0 Man Page
• PGPE 5.0 Man Page
• PGPK 5.0 Man Page
• PGPS 5.0 Man Page
• PGPV 5.0 Man Page
• PGP.CFG 5.0 Man Page

The following PGP 2.6.2 documenation is provided for reference value.

• pgp.README
• PGP 2.6.2 User's Guide - Volume I
• PGP 2.6.2 User's Guide - Volume II