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how to receive encrypted files and view them

Hello experts,

I have a 3rd party vendor and they are asking me to send them PGP public key. they want to transmit the file and encrypt it using this public key I should be providing them and they sign it with a file that is an *pgp_public.asc file, they sent me the file.

My question is how to generate PGP public key? and what do I do with this file that they are using to sign the files. what is the process of viewing this file after receiving it from the 3rd party.

Thanks,

Prabhin MP

are you using pgp key for email transmit?

smart Z

ASKER

no these are just files not email

smart Z

ASKER

What do I do with the signed file that I received from the 3rd party and how do I generate my public PGP key?

Prabhin MP

if you are using windows , follow this
https://www.gpg4win.org/doc/en/gpg4win-compendium.html
for linux,
https://blogs.oracle.com/wssfc/how-to-generate-pgp-keys-using-gpg-145-on-linux

Prabhin MP

What do I do with the signed file that I received from the 3rd party and how do I generate my public PGP key?

once you receive a signed file, you have to use sender public key and your private key to decrypt it

smart Z

ASKER

How do I use it in windows OS, is there a particular location I should put the 3rd party key and my private key

smart Z

ASKER

Please note that there will an end user from our company that will be reading the files.

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Prabhin MP

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