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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: SuckDick4Weed on August 16, 2013, 05:42 am

Title: Other uses for PGP
Post by: SuckDick4Weed on August 16, 2013, 05:42 am

So I like how PGP works and was wanting to learn more on the technical side of things.

Was wondering if it would be easy to use PGP to encrypt sound encodes, images, etc? Instead of just text?

Title: Re: Other uses for PGP
Post by: astor on August 16, 2013, 06:04 am

You can do it. In fact, the default mode of command line gpg is to create binary encrypted data, which lets you encrypt any kind of file, including binary files (Word documents, sound and video files).

I don't think you can do it in a GUI, since they assume you want ASCII armored text, but there might be an option for that in some GUIs.

Title: Re: Other uses for PGP
Post by: SuckDick4Weed on August 16, 2013, 06:26 am

Cheers, yeah wouldn't be a GUI. Just wanted to know if it would be feasible to get PGP onto a chip for a couple of different encodes, combined with an analogue to digital converter.

Title: Re: Other uses for PGP
Post by: astor on August 16, 2013, 07:06 am

Actually you can encrypt binary data and ASCII encode it, so it can be sent via email (like base64 encoded images), but it makes the file much bigger.