Re: PGP Encryption for the AS/400 ...

I confirm what Scott said.
PGP 6.5.8 for AIX runs perfectly in iSeries and setup takes no more than 5
minutes. Maybe there are some problems for prompts against untrusted keys,
but it's not a iSeries problem.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Klement" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 11:37 PM
Subject: Re: PGP Encryption for the AS/400 ...


>
>
> > I would like to transmit files to M&T Bank using FTP and like most banks
> > they require PGP encryption.
> >
> > Does anyone know of a way to do PGP encryption on the AS/400 for FREE or
> > with only minimal costs?
>
> Here's a message that I posted to the iSeries Network forums last week:
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
> From: Scott Klement
> Date: 09-16-2005  09:04AM
>
> As a quick test to see if I could get a free PGP program for the iSeries,
> I went to:
>
> http://www.pgpi.org
>
> There I clicked on "Download -> PGP" and noted that there's no "OS/400" or
> "i5/OS" version, but there are lots of Unix versions, and Unix software
> will sometimes run in PASE on the iSeries, so I clicked "Unix -> PGP 6.5.8
> -> AIX"
>
> I then downloaded the AIX version of PGP, and FTPed it to my iSeries.
>
> I started up PASE (installable from your OS/400 CDs, Free with V5R2 or
> later) with the CALL QP2TERM command.
>
> I used the gunzip program (part of the GNU utilities available from
>
http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/enable/site/porting/iseries/overview/gnu_utilities.html
> and the TAR program to extract the contents of the download. to my IFS.
> There's another gzipped tar file inside the original one, so I used gunzip
> and tar again to extract that one.
>
> Now I have a PGP program in a directory of my IFS. When I'm in PASE and I
> go to that directory, I can type ./pgp -h to get some help -- and it
> works, so it looks like the program runs.
>
> That's as far as I got -- only spent about 5 minutes looking at it -- but
> it appears that this program will run on the iSeries. You should be able
> to run it from your own CL or RPG programs using the QP2SHELL API. Best of
> all is the price tag -- it costs nothing.
>
> Might be worth looking at.
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