Technical specification
- Feature list
- Available editions
- Supported platforms
- Development tools
Feature list
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General OpenPGP features, supported by OpenPGPBlackbox are:
- conformance to OpenPGP Message Format (RFC 2440 and its successor, RFC 4880);
- comlpete set of encryption / decryption, signing / signature verification, compression / decompression, armoring / dearmoring operations;
- compatibility with all PGP versions on the market starting from PGP 2.6 and up to PGP 9.x, GnuPG and alternative implementations
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- possibility to put or extract several files to/from single PGP file
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- creation of SFX ("self-extracting") OpenPGP files
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- stream-based processing, which lets you handle huge amounts of data (dozens of Gb) without significant memory requirements
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- private and experimental OpenPGP packets
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- key length from 512 to 16384 bits
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- RSA, DSA (DSS), DSA 2, Elgamal public key algorithms
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- encryption using AES 128-256, CAST5, Triple DES (3DES), Blowfish, Twofish
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- integrity checking using RIPEMD160, SHA 512, SHA 384, SHA 256, SHA1, MD5 algorithms
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- BZip2, ZLib and Zip compression
Key management is the vital part of OpenPGP infrastructure, supported by OpenPGPBlackbox, which lets you:
- generate OpenPGP keys
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- save, load and manage OpenPGP keyrings
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- validate the keys and signatures
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- use X.509 certificates instead of OpenPGP keys
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- support Cryptocards and USB Crypto Tokens
PKI Infrastructure is used by OpenPGPBlackbox as an alternative to OpenPGP keys and is provided by PKIBlackbox, base functions of which are included into OpenPGPBlackbox.
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Available editions
OpenPGPBlackbox is available in several editions for various software platforms (some functions and components can be unsupported on certain platforms).
.NET edition.
This edition of OpenPGPBlackbox includes pure managed components, carefully optimized to achieve maximum performance, comparable to native processor code.
.NET edition can be used on
.NET edition can be used on ASP.NET server systems, Azure server systems, Windows server and desktop systems, Windows Mobile PDAs, Silverlight-enabled browsers, Android and Windows Phone 7 smartphones, on Linux and MacOS X systems with Mono installed.
Java edition.
Java edition can be used with Java Standard Edition or Enterprise Edition version 6 or later.
Also Java edition can be used on Android devices with Android 2.2 and later.
VCL edition.
Blazingly fast native Delphi (Pascal) components for building native Windows, Linux, MacOS X and iOS applications.
VCL edition can be used with
- Delphi (from Delphi 4 to the most recent Delphi XE2)
- C++Builder (from C++Builder 2007 to the most recent C++ Builder XE2)
- FreePascal 2.4.4 and 2.6 for Win32, Win64, Linux/x86, Linux/x64, MacOS X, iOS
VCL edition works on any computer with Windows 2000 and later or with Linux kernel 2.4 and later.
ActiveX edition.
ActiveX controls and Dynamically-Linked Libraries are useable with virtually any development tool, which supports ActiveX technology.
This includes ASP web pages, Visual Basic 6 applications, native C/C++ applications for Windows, shell and server-side scripts.
ActiveX edition works on any computer with Windows 98 and later.
Supported platforms
- Windows:
- Windows 2008 R2 Server (32-bit, 64-bit AMD64 and 64-bit Itanium)
- Windows 7 (32-bit, 64-bit AMD64 and 64-bit Itanium)
- Windows 2008 Server (32-bit, 64-bit AMD64 and 64-bit Itanium)
- Windows Vista (32-bit, 64-bit AMD64 and 64-bit Itanium)
- Windows 2003 Server (32-bit, 64-bit AMD64 and 64-bit Itanium)
- Windows XP (32-bit, 64-bit AMD64 and 64-bit Itanium)
- Windows 2000
- Microsoft .NET Framework:
- .NET 4.0 (32-bit, 64-bit AMD64 and 64-bit Itanium)
- .NET 3.5 (32-bit, 64-bit AMD64 and 64-bit Itanium)
- .NET 3.0 (32-bit, 64-bit AMD64 and 64-bit Itanium)
- .NET 2.0 (32-bit, 64-bit AMD64 and 64-bit Itanium)
- .NET 1.1 (32-bit)
- Silverlight:
- Silverlight 5
- Silverlight 4
- Silverlight 3
- Windows Phone:
- Windows Phone Mango
- Windows Phone 7
- Android:
- .NET Compact Framework:
- .NET CF 3.5
- .NET CF 2.0
- .NET CF 1.0
- Mono:
- Linux:
- Linux distributions with kernel version 2.6 or later on x86 and x64 platforms
- MacOS X:
- MacOS X 10.6 and later via FreePascal
Development tools
Various editions of OpenPGPBlackbox are used with different development tools:
.NET edition of OpenPGPBlackbox can be used with
- MS Visual Studio 2010
- MS Visual Studio 2008
- MS Visual Studio 2005
- MS Visual Studio .NET 2003
- CodeGear RAD Studio 2010 (Delphi Prism)
- CodeGear RAD Studio 2009 (Delphi Prism)
- Borland Developer Studio 2006 (C# Builder personality)
- Borland Delphi 2005 (C# Builder personality)
- MonoDevelop
Java edition (DEVELOPER PREVIEW) can be used with
- Any development tool that targets Java or Android
VCL edition of OpenPGPBlackbox is offered for
- Embarcadero RAD Studio XE2 (Delphi/Win32, Delphi/Win64 and C++Builder/Win32 platforms)
- Embarcadero C++Builder XE2 (C++Builder/Win32 platform)
- Embarcadero Delphi XE2 (Delphi/Win32 and Delphi/Win64 platforms)
- Embarcadero RAD Studio XE (Delphi/Win32 and C++Builder personalities)
- Embarcadero C++Builder XE
- Embarcadero Delphi XE
- Embarcadero RAD Studio 2010 (Delphi/Win32 and C++Builder personalities)
- Embarcadero C++Builder 2010
- Embarcadero Delphi 2010
- CodeGear RAD Studio 2009 (Delphi/Win32 and C++Builder personalities)
- CodeGear C++Builder 2009
- CodeGear Delphi 2009
- CodeGear RAD Studio 2007 (Delphi/Win32 and C++Builder personalities)
- CodeGear C++Builder 2007
- CodeGear Delphi 2007
- Borland Developer Studio 2006 (Delphi/Win32 and C++Builder personalities)
- Borland Delphi 2005 (Delphi/Win32 personality)
- Borland Delphi 4-7
- FreePascal 2.4.4 or later (Win32 and Linux / x86)
DLL/ActiveX edition can be used with
- MS Visual Basic 6 (ActiveX only)
- MS Visual C++ 6.0 (ActiveX and DLL)
- JScript and VBScript (ActiveX, not all controls)
- MS Visual Studio .NET and MS Visual Studio .NET 2003 via COM interop. Not recommended, use .NET edition instead
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Licensing and use
OpenPGPBlackbox can be licensed in one of the following packages:
- SecureBlackbox Professional
- SecureBlackbox Standard
- SecureBlackbox Data Security
- XMLBlackbox
- OpenPGPBlackbox
Compression gives an additional level of security and lets you increase transfer speed significantly and reduce the network load and storage space requirements.
Synchronous operation mode gives you a linear programming approach without complicated callback functions. This approach saves your development time and reduces the number of errors.
Asynchronous operation mode, on the other hand, gives you flexibility and complete control over your application communications.
Synchronous operation mode gives you a linear programming approach without complicated callback functions. This approach saves your development time and reduces the number of errors.
Simple SecureBlackbox components can be used for reliable data transfer no matter what type of proxy or firewall is used to protect the network.
HTTPS proxy access includes support for Basic, Digest and Windows Integrated (NTLM) authentication mechanisms.
You can process huge files and not be bound by restrictions of 32-bit environments. This feature works on both 32-bit and 64-bit systems without any limitations.
To limit and control network load and bandwidth consumption you can setup maximum upload and download speed for the data transfer components.
Transport (SSL, FTP, HTTP, SMTP, POP3, WebDAV, LDAP, SSH, SFTP) components can be used in IPv6 networks without any problems, address conversions or packet wrapping.
Transport (SSL, FTP, HTTP, SMTP, POP3, WebDAV, LDAP, SSH, SFTP) components understand and make use of non-latin domain names (so-called International Domain Names, IDN).
In FIPS operation mode SecureBlackbox uses only certified CryptoAPI modules of Windows to perform any cryptographic operations.
FIPS mode is available only on Windows platform.
Virtual File System adapters let SecureBlackbox components, which operate with files, work with various backend file storages and not just with "physical" disk.
For example, in WebDAV, SFTP, HTTP(S) and FTP(S) servers you can provide a personal storage space for each connected user.
Out of the box file system adapter and SolFS virtual file system adapter are included and you can easily create your own adapter.
With DNSSEC support enabled you protect your socket connection from being fooled by possible DNS cache poisoning and other malicious DNS activities.
DNSSEC requires that the DNS record for the destination server contains a certified signature.
Distributed Crypto modules let web site visitors use certificates accessible only on the client system to sign the data, stored on the server (no need to download this data).
This is done with help of client-side modules (Java applet, ActiveX control, Flash applet), embedded into the web page.
Cryptographic hardware gains more and more popularity every day. If your software deals with X.509 certificates or PKI in general (RSA keys etc.), it is time to support cryptocards and USB tokens.
To use cryptographic hardware you need a license for PKIBlackbox.
SecureBlackbox was written from the ground up by EldoS Corporation developers.
It doesn't use third-party code to implement its cryptographic functions.
This means that you are not bound by CryptoAPI or OpenSSL version when you need to use certain algorithm.
At the same time it's possible to plug third-party security libraries and hardware modules by utilizing the pluggable architecture of SecureBlackbox.
No royalties means the licensing procedure which is clear and easy to understand and manage. Pay for the license once and use it for development and deployment with no other payments.
We provide free technical support via web-based Forum and HelpDesk. Support is available for everyone, and the requests from clients who purchased a license are given priority.
Also you can use our extensive knowledgebase.
With OpenPGPBlackbox you can be sure that you can exchange data with any OpenPGP-compatible implementation that the other party uses.
PGP 9 introduced the feature of placing multiple files into one encrypted or signed PGP file. This is done by placing all files to TAR archive and then encrypting or signing this TAR archive.
OpenPGPBlackbox can create such files itself and it is also capable of processing the PGP files with multiple files inside.
Stream-based processing lets you process really huge files and not be bound by restrictions of 32-bit environments. This feature works on both 32-bit and 64-bit systems without any limitations.
OpenPGPBlackbox goes several steps beyond the current standard. We support the features, offered by the latest drafts of OpenPGP specification.
OpenPGPBlackbox supports the keys of any length, used in modern computing. If you need more strength, you can generate and use 4096-bit keys without problems.
With the wide choice of encryption, authentication and digital signature algorithms supported by OpenPGPBlackbox, you will be able to meet the security requirements and get compatibility with the wide choice of differently configured software.
Originally PGP infrastructure was built as a distributed alternative to PKI. OpenPGPBlackbox takes the best of two worlds and offers you the ways to use both PGP and PKI depending on your needs.
You can even combine them together by using X.509 certificates for OpenPGP ioerations.
With SecureBlackbox you can create, manage and convert OpenPGP keys without the need for external key management software.
OpenPGPBlackbox package includes functions that let you generate and manage OpenPGP keys and keyrings. Using these functions you can build your own PGP key management applications.
With OpenPGPBlackbox you can create self-extracting OpenPGP files, i.e. executable files which contain encrypted, signed and compressed data.
When these executable files are run, they can extract the contained data to the disk (of course, when the correct decryption key or passphrase is provided for encrypted data).
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Latest version
9.1.215
Released 20 February 2012
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