On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 11:23 PM, David Shaw <ds...@jabberwocky.com> wrote: > On Mar 19, 2010, at 4:51 PM, Juergen Weber wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> has anybody tried to decrypt a symmetric gpg encryption with Java >> using Java Cryptography Architecture included in the JDK? >> >> echo hello | gpg -c --cipher-algo 3DES -a --passphrase "my pass" | >> java MyDeCrypt --cipher-algo 3DES --passphrase "my pass" >> >> should result in hello >> >> This should be possible, I googled for a sample, but there seems to be none. > > GnuPG encrypts using the OpenPGP standard. The Java cryptography > architecture doesn't follow that spec (that "file format" if you like). If > you want to do OpenPGP in Java, I suggest > http://www.bouncycastle.org/java.html which is a provider for the > cryptography architecture. > > David
No, I don't need OpenPGP, just need symmetric encryption done by a standard command line Unix tool and decryption by means of the Java runtime library. Guess I'll take openssl, looks like this works with Java: http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5153188 Juergen _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
