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Encryption and Decryption

Encryption​

This step will encrypt all files that match the File Filter specified in the Source section with a specific PGP public key.The encrypted output files are named by adding a .pgp extension to the source file name.

Encryption

  • File Filter
    • This defines the files of the file set to be included in encrypted file.
    • It supports wild cards ( ? ) and ( * ) as well as multiple definitions seperated by the pipe ( | ) character (Example: *.dt1|*.dt2).
    • When requiring all files in the file set an asterick ( * ) should be used instead of asterick dot asterick ( *.* ) as the second definition will only select files that have a name and and extension.
  • Key
    • Unique identifier of the public key used for encryption. Select the key name from the dropdown list.
  • Signature Type
    • The encoding type used to encode the Signing Key.
    • Select the encoding type from the dropdown list.
    • Values: MD5, RIPE160, SHA1, SHA256, SHA512, SHA3 - 256, SHA3 - 512.
    • Default: SHA256
  • Signing Key
    • Digital signature enabling the recipient of the file to verify the authenticity of the information's origin, and also verify that the information has not been tampered with.
  • Cipher
    • Select the symmetric cipher to be used to encrypt the file set from the dropdown list
    • Values: CAST5, AES, AES192, IDEA, Blowfish, Twofish, 3DES.
    • Default: AES
  • Ascii Armor
    • Indicates whether the encrypted representation of a file should consist entirely of printable ASCII characters
    • Values: True or false
    • Default: False

Decryption​

The decrypt step decrypts PGP or GPG encrypted source files in the current file set.

Decryption

  • File Filter
    • This defines the files of the file set to be decrypted.
    • It supports wild cards ( ? ) and ( * ) as well as multiple definitions separated by the pipe ( | ) character (Example: *.dt1|*.dt2).
    • When requiring all files in the file set a single asterick ( * ) should be used instead of asterick dot asterick ( *.* ) as the second definition will only select files that have a name and and extension.