ObjectivePGP is an implementation of OpenPGP protocol for iOS and macOS. OpenPGP is the most widely used email encryption standard. It is defined by the OpenPGP Working Group of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).

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How do I get involved?

You want to help, great! Go ahead and fork our repo, make your changes and send us a pull request.

Contribution

You are welcome to contribute. See CONTRIBUTING.md
Please create Pull Request.

The license

The ObjectivePGP stays under a dual license:

• Free for non-commercial use, covered by the variant of BSD license. That means you have to mention Marcin Krzyżanowski as the original author of this code and reproduce the LICENSE text inside your app.

• Commercial-use license to use in commercial products. Please bear in mind that some free products remain commercial products. Please contact me via email for details.

Not sure what to choose? check FAQ

Installation

Swift Package Manager

dependencies: [
    .package(url: "https://github.com/krzyzanowskim/ObjectivePGP.git", .upToNextMinor(from: "0.99.4"))
]

CocoaPods

pod 'ObjectivePGP'

Frameworks

ObjectivePGP comes with the Frameworks for the latest release, you can copy and embed in your project:

• ObjectivePGP.framework
• ObjectivePGP.xcframework

Usage

Objective-C

#import <ObjectivePGP/ObjectivePGP.h>

Swift

import ObjectivePGP

Read keys (private or public)

NSArray<PGPKey *> *keys = [ObjectivePGP readKeysFromPath:@"/path/to/key.asc" error:nil];

let keys = try ObjectivePGP.readKeys(fromPath: "/path/to/key.asc")

Keyring

Keyring is a storage (in memory or on disk) that keep all sorts of PGP keys.

PGPKeyring *keyring = ObjectivePGP.defaultKeyring;
PGPKeyring *keyring = [[PGPKeyring alloc] init];

NSArray<PGPKey *> *allKeys = keyring.keys;
[keyring importKeys:@[key]];
[keyring deleteKeys:@[key]];

[keyring importKey:@"979E4B03DFFE30C6" fromPath:@"/path/to/secring.gpg"];
PGPKey *key = [keyring findKeyWithIdentifier:@"979E4B03DFFE30C6"];
NSArray<PGPKey *> keys = [pgp findKeysForUserID:@"Name <email@example.com>"];

let keyring = ObjectivePGP.defaultKeyring
let keyring = Keyring()

let allKeys = keyring.keys
keyring.import(keys: [key])
keyring.delete(keys: [key])

keyring.import(keyIdentifier:"979E4B03DFFE30C6", fromPath:"/path/to/secring.gpg")
if let key = keyring.findKey("979E4B03DFFE30C6") {
    // key found in keyring
}

keyring.findKeys("Name <email@example.com>").forEach(key) {
    // process key
}

Export keys (private or public)

// Write keyring to file
[[keyring export:error] writeToURL:[NSURL fileURLWithString:@"keyring.gpg"]];

// Public keys data
NSData *publicKeys = [keyring exportKeysOfType:PGPKeyTypePublic error:nil];

// Write keyring to file
try keyring.export().write(to: URL(fileURLWithPath: "keyring.gpg"))

// Public keys (Data)
let publicKeys = keyring.exportKeys(of: .public)

Sign & verify data (or file)

Sign a data with a key:

NSData *signature = [ObjectivePGP sign:fileContent detached:YES usingKeys:@[key] passphraseForKey:nil error:nil];
[ObjectivePGP verify:fileContent withSignature:signature usingKeys:@[key] passphraseForKey:nil error:nil];

let signature = try ObjectivePGP.sign(encryptedBin, detached:true, using: [key1])
try ObjectivePGP.verify(encryptedBin, withSignature: signature, using: [key1])

Encrypt & Decrypt

NSData *encrypted = [ObjectivePGP encrypt:fileContent addSignature:YES usingKeys:@[key] passphraseForKey:nil error:nil];
[ObjectivePGP decrypt:encrypted andVerifySignature:YES usingKeys:@[key] passphraseForKey:nil error:nil];

let encrypted = try ObjectivePGP.encrypt(fileContent), addSignature: true, using: [key1, key2])
let decrypted = try ObjectivePGP.decrypt(encrypted, andVerifySignature: true, using: [key1])

Generate new key pair

PGPKeyGenerator *generator = [[PGPKeyGenerator alloc] init];
PGPKey *key = [generator generateFor:@"Marcin <marcin@example.com>" passphrase:nil];
NSData *publicKeyData = [key export:PGPKeyTypePublic error:nil];
NSData *secretKeyData = [key export:PGPKeyTypeSecret error:nil];

let key = KeyGenerator().generate(for: "marcin@example.com", passphrase: "password")
let publicKey = try key.export(keyType: .public)
let secretKey = try key.export(keyType: .secret)

ASCII Armor

ASCII armor is a binary-to-textual encoding converter. ASCII armor involves encasing encrypted messaging in ASCII so that they can be sent in a standard messaging format such as email.

Example:

-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Comment: For more info see https://www.objectivepgp.org

[...]
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

Class PGPArmor can be used to convert binary format to ASCII format

NSString *armoredKey = [PGPArmor armoredData:encrypted as:PGPArmorPublicKey];

let armoredKey = Armor.armored(Data(), as: .publicKey)

When convert manually, it is important to use right PGPArmorType value that define the header. It may be a tricky part so here’s the cheatsheet:

Type data	PGPArmorType	Example
Encrypted	PGPArmorMessage	Armor.armored(ObjectivePGP.encrypt(...), as: .message)
Decrypted	PGPArmorMessage	Armor.armored(ObjectivePGP.decrypt(...), as: .message)
Public key	PGPArmorTypePublic	Armor.armored(key.export(), as: .publicKey)
Secret key	PGPArmorTypeSecret	Armor.armored(key.export(), as: .secretKey)

For any result of encryption the type is PGPArmorMessage

Changelog

See CHANGELOG

Known limitations:

• Cleartext signature.

Security Audit

To date the ObjectivePGP code base has undergone a complete security audit from Cure53.

Acknowledgment

This product uses software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit. (http://www.openssl.org/)

Author

Marcin Krzyżanowski