Re: FN-FORUM: Looking for someone who has used donhost hosting before - PGP issues

date posted 29th January 2007 14:27

On Monday 29 January 2007 14:55, Duncan Glendinning wrote:
> Good Afternoon,
>
> Am trying to figure out how to set up the pgp encryption keys, but
> this is all that the hosting company will give me when I asked:
>
> "
> We don't provide any tools for use with PGP, you would have to use a perl
> script to call it and to create or register your keys so you would need a
> good working knowledge or perl and PGP to do this.
> "

Have set up a php / gpg mailer on a sys where I has ssh also so perhaps these
thoughts of some use. ssh access makes life a lot less fiddly but is not
essential

First problem - is pgp / gpg binary available on server ? where is it ?

If its available and you can find ( write a tmp php script to check probable
locations ) it then all you would have to do would be to place a public ring
file in a known place on the server then call pgp / gpg with correct env |
args in order to do the encryption

Hope this helps
IanR

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