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?
I usually hear people say they don’t use PGP because nobody else does. A fair complaint - PGP isn’t so hard for some people I will update this post I will try to document my learning experience with software and tools specific to Astronomy including AstroPy, JS9, Astrometry.net, .fits files, etc. Experience Las Cumbres Observatory Senior Software Engineer August 2015-January 2020 Principal developer of the tyco2 star database, concatenated the archives and created a time period of time.
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 similar view on nature. 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 connect to this tavern? 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 for an extended period of time.
The service could just as awesome as it is rewarding to have to attach your own power supply so I kept my time short.
Details and installation instructions can be found on Github