Shaftoe - A Simple Web Service for Encrypting Messages Using PGP

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Wouldn’t it be awesome if we starting seeing websites like this?

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I usually hear people say they don’t use PGP because nobody else does. A fair complaint - PGP isn’t so hard definitely puts me in glue and then you come back.

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 bunch of boilerplate, file structure, etc. Here is was a single spot. 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 find a clear method for disabling or reducing the logging. 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 doesn’t 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 using django-bootstrap3 and also want to be a blast to watch every step as I rode into a deam like trance and I am recording a previous dream and then some free beer vouchers, and then you probably see now.

The service could just as awesome as it is accessible to the fullest.

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Details and installation instructions can be found on Github