Re: Thoughts on DIY PGP

[Justin Taylor <jtaylor.0ab@xxxxxxxxx>]

You're talking about the gnup2.ppc64 rpm package?


date: Tue, 13 Apr 2021 12:11:05 +0000
> from: Kevin Bucknum <Kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> subject: Re: Thoughts on DIY PGP
>
> We've done it for years with an AIX binary of gpg. If we ever have to
> write another, I'll switch to the ibm provided rpm version on all of mine.
> I'm pretty sure I wrote a test cl and a document on importing keys. I'll
> look around this afternoon and see if I can find it. The only place we use
> it is for sending stuff via FTP, and we push hard now for everything to be
> SFTP, so I may never have to make that switch.
>
> On Mon, 2021-04-12 at 16:20 -0500, Justin Taylor wrote:
>
> I have a DIY JAR that uses Bouncy Castle (
>
> <https://www.bouncycastle.org/java.html>
>
> https://www.bouncycastle.org/java.html
>
> ) to do PGP encryption/decryption.
>
> The most recent Java group PTF broke my JAR, and to continue I'll need to
>
> update to the latest version of Bouncy Castle.  I'm a little embarrassed to
>
> say that I'm on the Feb 2013 version, so I suspect it'll take a significant
>
> amount of rewriting to get it functional.  It seems to be a good time to
>
> look around and see if there's a better option.
>
>
> Is anyone doing DIY PGP?  If so, any suggestions?
>
>
> TIA
>
>
>
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