{"id":11439,"date":"2021-08-01T13:50:14","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T20:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portasftpserver.com\/docs\/porta-sftp-server\/communicate-securely\/how-to-encrypt-a-file\/"},"modified":"2022-01-25T19:10:27","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T03:10:27","slug":"how-to-encrypt-a-file","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/portasftpserver.com\/docs\/porta-sftp-server\/communicate-securely\/how-to-encrypt-a-file\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Apply File Encryption"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Assuming that you already installed OpenPGP and Kleopatra<\/a> on your computer then all you have to do is right-click the folder or file then select sign and encrypt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Figure 1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Selecting File & Navigating Options<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Figure 2<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Encrypting File<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Note<\/em>. You can then select the option you need on the following options.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sign as: <\/strong>If you want to sign with your private key.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Encrypt for me:<\/strong> If you are encrypting the file for yourself then you have to select your own credentials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Encrypt for others:<\/strong> The imported credential for that entity where you want to send the encrypted data(file).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Encrypt with password:<\/strong> This will let you put a password to the signed file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Figure 3<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Validating Encrption Process<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Note<\/em>. Make sure that the encryption is succeeded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Figure 4<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sample Output<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Note<\/em>. This encrypted file is the one you should send.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":11078,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_is_vendor_doc":"0","footnotes":""},"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-11439","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry"],"comment_count":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/portasftpserver.com\/sera-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/11439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/portasftpserver.com\/sera-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/portasftpserver.com\/sera-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portasftpserver.com\/sera-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/portasftpserver.com\/sera-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/11439\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portasftpserver.com\/sera-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/11078"}],"prev":[{"title":"How To Generate Your Key Pair","link":"https:\/\/portasftpserver.com\/docs\/porta-sftp-server\/communicate-securely\/how-to-generate-your-key-pair\/","href":"https:\/\/portasftpserver.com\/sera-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/11165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/portasftpserver.com\/sera-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portasftpserver.com\/sera-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=11439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}