Technical specification
- Feature list
- Available editions
- Supported platforms
- Development tools
Feature list
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General OpenPGP features, supported by OpenPGPBlackbox are:
- 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 ;
- creation of SFX ("self-extracting") OpenPGP files ;
- stream-based processing, which lets you handle huge amounts of data without significant memory requirements ;
- private and experimental OpenPGP packets ;
- key length from 512 to 16384 bits ;
- RSA, DSA (DSS), DSA 2, Elgamal public key algorithms ;
- encryption using AES 128-256, CAST5, Triple DES (3DES), Blowfish, Twofish ;
- integrity checking using RIPEMD160, SHA 512, SHA 384, SHA 256, SHA1, MD5 algorithms ;
- BZip2, ZLib and Zip compression
Key management is the vital part of OpenPGP infrastructure, supported by OpenPGPBlackbox, which lets you:
- generate OpenPGP keys ;
- save, load and manage OpenPGP keyrings ;
- validate the keys and signatures ;
- use X.509 certificates instead of OpenPGP keys ;
- 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.
.NET edition.
This edition of OpenPGPBlackbox includes pure managed components, carefully optimized to achieve maximum performance, comparable to native processor code.
.NET edition requires .NET Framework 4.0, .NET Framework 3.5, .NET Framework 3.0, .NET Framework 2.0, .NET Framework 1.1, Silverlight 4, Silverlight 3, Mono 2.0, Mono 1.0, .NET CF (Compact Framework) 3.5, .NET CF 2.0, .NET CF 1.0.
.NET edition can be used on ASP.NET server systems, Windows desktop systems, Windows Mobile PDAs, Silverlight-enabled browsers, on Linux and MacOS X systems with Mono installed.
VCL edition.
Blazingly fast native Delphi (Pascal) components for building native Windows and Linux applications. Usable with Delphi, C++ Builder or FreePascal (Win32 or x64, Linux/x86 or Linux/x64).
VCL edition works on any computer with Windows 98 and later or with Linux kernel 2.4 and later.
ActiveX/DLL edition.
ActiveX controls and Dynamically-Linked Libraries are useable with virtually any development tool, which supports ActiveX or DLLs.
This includes ASP web pages, Visual Basic 6 applications, native C/C++ applications for Windows, shell and server-side scripts.
ActiveX/DLL 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
- Silverlight:
- Silverlight 4
- Silverlight 3
- 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)
- .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
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)
- Borland Delphi 8
- Borland C# Builder
- MONO development tools
VCL edition of OpenPGPBlackbox is offered for
- CodeGear RAD Studio 2010 (Delphi/Win32 and C++Builder personalities)
- CodeGear C++Builder 2010
- CodeGear 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 2.0.2 or later (Win32 and Linux / x86)
Support for Delphi 2009 and C++Builder 2009 is provided in SecureBlackbox 7.
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
- Development tools, which support DLLs (DLL version of OpenPGPBlackbox only)
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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.
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, SSH, SFTP) components can be used in IPv6 networks without any problems, address conversions or packet wrapping.
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.
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.
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
8.0.176
Released 23 May 2010
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