PGP command-line program t be called from script or batch file?

I am seeking a freeware, open-source, or fairly cheap PGP Command Line app which can do PGP file encryption.

It should be a Windows solution, and should be able to be called at the command-line, passing parameters, or using a Batch file.

It should also support all the latest versions of windows and windows servers OS.

Please, no GUI interfaces. I seek just a command-line tool. The smaller the package (less distributable) the better.

Thanks for any help you may provide

Johnny Holmes

Posted 2012-04-23T22:13:12.360

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3I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because you say specifically "I am seeking a freeware, open-source, or fairly cheap PGP Command Line app which can do PGP file encryption." and to me this means you are software shopping. Beep Beep!! – Pimp Juice IT – 2017-06-20T04:12:25.637

1@McDonald's if you were the Road Runner, that would be Meep Meep! – fixer1234 – 2017-06-20T18:33:50.210

@fixer1234 LOL.... I didn't know that but now I do... thanks!! – Pimp Juice IT – 2017-06-20T20:38:07.937

Answers

There's a Windows port of GNU Privacy Guard (gpg) at http://gpg4win.org.

Since you want the smallest thing that does the job: the "light" release for version 1.0.9 is only 4MB. See http://files.gpg4win.org/gpg4win-light-1.0.9.exe

ckhan

Posted 2012-04-23T22:13:12.360

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Newer versions of the light version are available at http://files.gpg4win.org/. Alternately you can unzip (7z) the ~25MB installer, and then unzip (7z) the $TEMP/gnupg-w32... installer and get a working, portable GPG instance for about 12MB.

– tresf – 2018-01-18T21:05:36.163

Wouldn't that be GPG?'

The page I linked above says

Project Gpg4win provides a Windows version of GnuPG. It is nicely integrated into an installer and features several frontends as well as English and German manuals." That page has a "Download" button that takes you to a list of downloads including Vanilla installer.

RedGrittyBrick

Posted 2012-04-23T22:13:12.360

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GPG uses PGP (RFC4880 - https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4880.txt) "GnuPG is a complete and free implementation of the OpenPGP standard as defined by RFC4880 (also known as PGP)."

– Todd Mitchell – 2017-06-19T22:51:40.010

Tried downloading it. One link i ended up getting nothing but C code. The other link was a huge Windows GUI package. Any ideas, exactly what i need to download to get a command-line binary to do file exncryption? Very hard deciphering the downloads – Johnny Holmes – 2012-04-23T22:53:37.397