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How do I do Mathematica to a encrypt a message when someone has given me their public PGP key?

Does Mathematica have this functionality? Could I use Mathematica GenerateAsymmetricKeyPair[] to share a PGP key?

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    $\begingroup$ While I am interested to know if Mathematica has this functionality as well, this is one of the cases where I would highly recommend just using the dedicated software for it (gpg) if you're planning on using this in anything resembling a production style environment. Cryptography is not a very DIY friendly field. I couldn't figure out how to import an example PGP key myself, so I'm not entirely sure it can be done. $\endgroup$
    – eyorble
    May 12, 2020 at 11:45
  • $\begingroup$ Agreed it doesn't look doable but here's to hoping that it does $\endgroup$
    – IntroductionToProbability
    May 21, 2020 at 13:04
  • $\begingroup$ A question related to your third one ("Could I use Mma [...] to share a PGP key?) is here, " Using Mma to print the keys in the strict sense is possible (see @SjoerdSmit's answer here), so the outstanding issue is whether one can get Mma to take the other required info and put it together with the key to generate the key block. $\endgroup$
    – ool
    Mar 20, 2021 at 13:23

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Unfortunately Mathematica does not support PGP key import and encryption/decryption. However, as of v 12.2 it does support import of PEM files (keys, certificates, etc)

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