PGP - Keymanager

[Former Member]

Hi,

We are using aedaptive PGP modules.  How do we generate the keys.  The documentation suggests to use some keymanager as aedaptive does not provide one.

It mentions to go to website, customer,software downloads, keymanager.

But i am not able to find one.

Can any one who have used pgp comment on this?

Regards

Anandh

[baskar_gopalakrishnan2 · Accepted solution]

One sample link is below.. There are some freeware tools available online that generates key...

http://www.seas.upenn.edu/cets/answers/pgp_keys.html

http://www.ehow.com/how_7166337_generate-new-key-pgp.html

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

If there are so many freewares generating these keys, what does the PGP module does ? I assumed that they also have the tool to generate keys as well.

There are so many algorithms and cipers which is very confusing.

Regards

Anandh.B

[Shabarish_Nair · Accepted solution]

the PGP module is not to generate the keys but to put the keys to use You might first need to understand what PGP is before actually implementing PGP .. read through this http://www.pgpi.org/doc/pgpintro/

[Former Member]

Hi,

When we share our public key to our partners, they encrypt using our key and we need to decrypt using our private key.

In this process, does it matter to the partner to the type of algorithm or compression methods we had used to create the public key.

I had a quick check with our partners public key where the keytype used is DSA 1024.

The public key which we generated uses RSA_G1023.

Also let me know where should these keys be stored.  Should it be stored in NWA where the certificates and keys are . I believe it is not the same for PGP.

Regards

Anandh.B

[Shabarish_Nair]

read through these blogs..

http://scn.sap.com/community/pi-and-soa-middleware/blog/2012/04/10/pgpencryption-module-how-to-guide

http://scn.sap.com/community/pi-and-soa-middleware/blog/2012/04/10/pgpdecryption-a-simple-how-to-gui...

that will help you understand about your keys and algorithms that can be put to use. Also your keys will not be managed in NWA but on the OS level of the PI server. Note that even though the parameters might vary, the 3rd party module and SAP module kind of has the same functionality

[Shabarish_Nair]

there are tools that help you create PGP keys.

Just search in google with the term 'PGP key generator'