OVERVIEW

This Tutorial contains short examples that demonstrate the features of DidiSoft OpenPGP Library for .NET. It assumes that you have already installed the library. For setup instructions please refer to the Documentation.pdf/.doc file that ships with the library.

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

Intended audience: Software developers and System Architects

INTRODUCTION

• Introduction to OpenPGP
• Getting started with the Library
  

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