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PGP Command Line
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PGP Command Line 9.0 for Mainframes: Technical Specifications

Platforms Supported

  • IBM zSeries running:
    • IBM z/OS 1.6 and above
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9.0
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0

  • IBM iSeries running:
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9.0
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 
    • IBM i5/OS V5R3*
    • IBM OS/400 V5R1*

Public Key Formats

  • OpenPGP (RFC 2440)
  • X.509 v3 (RFC 2459)

Symmetric Key Algorithms

  • AES (up to 256-bit keys)
  • CAST5 (RFC 2144)
  • TripleDES
  • IDEA
  • Twofish
  • Blowfish**

Hashes

  • SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512
  • MD5
  • RIPEMD-160

Public Key Algorithms

  • Diffie-Hellman (up to 4096-bit keys)
  • DSA (1024-bit key only)
  • RSA (up to 4096-bit keys)

Compression Algorithms

  • Zip
  • BZip2
  • ZLib

* Coming soon

** Support for Blowfish is limited to decrypting existing messages encrypted with Blowfish or encrypting to existing keys that specify Blowfish as the preferred cipher.

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"My security group had been pressuring other departments to move away from insecure protocols and explore more secure options such as PGP® Command Line. The PHNS Integrations group was able to write some scripts and develop applications that leverage PGP Command Line."

Brian Perry, Director, Information Security, PHNS

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