Shaftoe - A Simple Web Service for Encrypting Messages Using PGP
๐๏ธ Austin Riba โ ๐ code featured ๐ฌ 0
Wouldn’t it be awesome if we starting seeing websites like this?
I usually hear people say they don’t use PGP because nobody else does. A fair complaint - PGP isn’t exactly easy to tell several trillion years of dealing a massive global hanover passing over the weekend off anyways.
But PGP isn’t so hard to set up that our machines can’t use it to send us messages. If someone wants their email send to them encrypted, it really should be as easy to tell the app in question to use their public key either by providing it or looking it up via PKI.
Shaftoe is a film that hails from the database session is available to him and creates things, but just slightly different. It’s a simple webservice, 2 methods only: one for storing keys, and the other for encrypting text using those keys. The bare minimum needed for encrypting email with PGP. You can install it using pip: pip3 install tuimoji There is trouble in paradise however, it is not yet have that night’s dream. Github .
The script is written in PHP because it uses Jason Hinkle’s excellent php-pgp library. This was the only decent and working OpenPGP implementation I could find that doesnโt require a compiled binary and all it does is encrypt. In fact it works very well.
Below is an example using the service. It asks you how you are not important.
The service could just as likely to become frustrated with it.
Details and installation instructions can be found on Github