OpenPGP Tasks

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The OpenPGP Task provides OpenPGP signing and encryption functionality.

Remarks

The OpenPGP Task is used when generating BizTalk Pipelines for sending and receiving OpenPGP signed and encrypted messages. The messages may be signed, encrypted, or both.

The OpenPGP Task does not by itself implement OpenPGP, instead it uses the provider pattern to interface with external cryptography libraries. An OpenPGP provider is a simple module that allows the task to offload OpenPGP operations to the OpenPGP software of your choice. The interface is designed to be generic in its ability to work with various OpenPGP software. We include an OpenPGP provider implementation for GnuPG which may be used as a reference to implement other providers.

OpenPGP Encoder Task

The encoder takes raw messages as input, and generates a signed, encrypted, or signed and encrypted OpenPGP message as output. This task can be used when generating pipelines to create such messages.

Set the PGPProvider property to the provider interface to your desired OpenPGP implementation. Use the PGPParams property to specify any parameters the interface will need to complete its execution. The SignData and EncryptData properties tell the component which operations should be performed on the message.

OpenPGP Decoder Task

The decoder takes OpenPGP signed, encrypted, or signed and encrypted messages as input, then verifies and/or decrypts the message. The resulting message will be the raw original message.

Set the PGPProvider property to the provider interface to your desired OpenPGP implementation. Use the PGPParams property to specify any parameters the interface will need to complete its execution.