OVERVIEW

This Tutorial is a starting point for using DidiSoft OpenPGP Library for .NET.

The complete library API is available online in MSDN style format. Additional samples can be found in the Examples folder in the trial version and in the production copy.

Intended audience: Software developers, System Architects and System administrators.

INTRODUCTION

• Introduction to OpenPGP
• Setup
• Getting started
  

MAIN FUNCTIONS

• Encrypting
• Decrypting
• Signing
• Verifying
• Signing and Encrypting
• Decrypting and Verifying
• Clear text signing

KEYS and KEYSTORE (Optional topic)

• KeyStore basics
• Generating RSA keys
• Generating DH/DSS keys
• Exporting from a KeyStore
• Importing into a KeyStore
• Changing key password
• Deleting key from a KeyStore

OpenPGP KEY REVOCATION (Advanced topic)

• Key revocation basics
• Direct key revocation
• Using a revocation certificate
• Using a designated revoker

PREFERENCES

• Set preferred cypher/symmetric key algorithm
• Set preferred compression
• Set preferred hashing

 MORE ADVANCED TOPICS

• Encrypting with both a public key and a password
• Create password encrypted SFX executables

 WHAT’S NEXT

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