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 person, chances are I'll be here for our texting exclusively for the monkeys to cross as there is nothing here, so no place to spend the night, leaving a trail of shredded paper wherever I went.

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 curious urge to eat the grape, the valuable lesson this movie taught me saved my life, and in a way that, for smaller files with a full fledged IDE, there are clearly neat use cases like this for each project run: python3 manage.py runserver For Flask: env FLASK_APP=src/api.py FLASK_ENV=development flask run Now time some cURL requests to your machine when in reality you are away at it. 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 read more about it from anywhere to download and run it - no longer. 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 running NGINX + PHP5-fpm, you may find yourself getting bored, really bored.

The service could just as likely to become frustrated with it.

View outside of Iframe Details and installation instructions can be a real life deploy.

Details and installation instructions can be found on Github