Native PGP Encryption

PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) is the standard for encrypting files exchanged between trading partners in managed file transfer. CompleteFTP Enterprise MFT provides native PGP encryption and decryption of files (no external tools or add-ons required) making it straightforward to send and receive PGP-protected files over FTP, FTPS, and SFTP.

Keys on folders, applied by script

PGP public and private keys are stored on folders and inherited down the folder tree, so a key set on a parent folder covers everything beneath it. Encryption and decryption are applied explicitly through CompleteFTP's scripting (JSS), which gives you full control over when they run, a common pattern is to automatically decrypt incoming files, and encrypt outgoing ones, as they are transferred.

This is different from Encryption at Rest, which transparently encrypts a user's stored files with AES so that only the server can read them. PGP instead uses standard OpenPGP keys, so files can be decrypted by any partner who holds the matching key.

Native PGP encryption is available in the Enterprise MFT edition.

Read more in the CompleteFTP User Guide.