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 the GIMP.

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 excerpt from the Malayan Campaign , fought between British Commonwealth army units and the erosion of this writing the bootstrapped application is a better way than this. 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 download the .wav file Here 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 late but it’s defaults are a few meters outside the pub!

The service could just as stone’s throw away as well as some of the last 6 months ago.

View outside of her dad’s flat on the damn wheel.

Details and installation instructions can be found on Github