sample app that uses PGP Encryption using Bouncy Castle's C# API

App.config

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
  <add key="Password" value="ThisIsNotARealPassword" />
  <add key="PublicKey" value="PgpPublicKey.asc" />
  <add key="PrivateKeyOnly" value="PgpPrivateKeyOnly.asc" />
</configuration>

CryptoHelper.cs

using System;
using System.Configuration;
using System.IO;
using System.Security.Cryptography;
// using Bouncy Castle library: http://www.bouncycastle.org/csharp/
using Org.BouncyCastle.Bcpg;
using Org.BouncyCastle.Bcpg.OpenPgp;
using Org.BouncyCastle.Crypto.Parameters;
using Org.BouncyCastle.Security;

namespace EncryptionSample
{
    public static class CryptoHelper
    {
        private static readonly string Password = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["Password"];
        public static readonly string PublicKey = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["PublicKey"];
        public static readonly string PublicKeyPath = IoHelper.BasePath + @"\" + PublicKey;
        // note: this should be changed if the private key is not located in the current executables path
        private static readonly string PrivateKeyOnly = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["PrivateKeyOnly"];
        private static readonly string PrivateKeyOnlyPath = IoHelper.BasePath + @"\" + PrivateKeyOnly;

        // The majority of the functionality encrypting/decrypting came from this answer: http://stackoverflow.com/a/10210465

        private static PgpPrivateKey FindSecretKey(PgpSecretKeyRingBundle pgpSec, long keyId, char[] pass)
        {
            PgpSecretKey pgpSecKey = pgpSec.GetSecretKey(keyId);
            if (pgpSecKey == null)
            {
                return null;
            }

            return pgpSecKey.ExtractPrivateKey(pass);
        }

        public static string DecryptPgpData(string inputData)
        {
            string output;
            using (Stream inputStream = IoHelper.GetStream(inputData))
            {
                using (Stream keyIn = File.OpenRead(PrivateKeyOnlyPath))
                {
                    output = DecryptPgpData(inputStream, keyIn, Password);
                }
            }
            return output;
        }

        public static string DecryptPgpData(Stream inputStream, Stream privateKeyStream, string passPhrase)
        {
            string output;

            PgpObjectFactory pgpFactory = new PgpObjectFactory(PgpUtilities.GetDecoderStream(inputStream));
            // find secret key
            PgpSecretKeyRingBundle pgpKeyRing = new PgpSecretKeyRingBundle(PgpUtilities.GetDecoderStream(privateKeyStream));

            PgpObject pgp = null;
            if (pgpFactory != null)
            {
                pgp = pgpFactory.NextPgpObject();
            }

            // the first object might be a PGP marker packet.
            PgpEncryptedDataList encryptedData = null;
            if (pgp is PgpEncryptedDataList)
            {
                encryptedData = (PgpEncryptedDataList)pgp;
            }
            else
            {
                encryptedData = (PgpEncryptedDataList)pgpFactory.NextPgpObject();
            }

            // decrypt
            PgpPrivateKey privateKey = null;
            PgpPublicKeyEncryptedData pubKeyData = null;
            foreach (PgpPublicKeyEncryptedData pubKeyDataItem in encryptedData.GetEncryptedDataObjects())
            {
                privateKey = FindSecretKey(pgpKeyRing, pubKeyDataItem.KeyId, passPhrase.ToCharArray());

                if (privateKey != null)
                {
                    pubKeyData = pubKeyDataItem;
                    break;
                }
            }

            if (privateKey == null)
            {
                throw new ArgumentException("Secret key for message not found.");
            }

            PgpObjectFactory plainFact = null;
            using (Stream clear = pubKeyData.GetDataStream(privateKey))
            {
                plainFact = new PgpObjectFactory(clear);
            }

            PgpObject message = plainFact.NextPgpObject();

            if (message is PgpCompressedData)
            {
                PgpCompressedData compressedData = (PgpCompressedData)message;
                PgpObjectFactory pgpCompressedFactory = null;

                using (Stream compDataIn = compressedData.GetDataStream())
                {
                    pgpCompressedFactory = new PgpObjectFactory(compDataIn);
                }

                message = pgpCompressedFactory.NextPgpObject();
                PgpLiteralData literalData = null;
                if (message is PgpOnePassSignatureList)
                {
                    message = pgpCompressedFactory.NextPgpObject();
                }

                literalData = (PgpLiteralData)message;
                using (Stream unc = literalData.GetInputStream())
                {
                    output = IoHelper.GetString(unc);
                }

            }
            else if (message is PgpLiteralData)
            {
                PgpLiteralData literalData = (PgpLiteralData)message;
                using (Stream unc = literalData.GetInputStream())
                {
                    output = IoHelper.GetString(unc);
                }
            }
            else if (message is PgpOnePassSignatureList)
            {
                throw new PgpException("Encrypted message contains a signed message - not literal data.");
            }
            else
            {
                throw new PgpException("Message is not a simple encrypted file - type unknown.");
            }

            return output;
        }

        private static PgpPublicKey ReadPublicKey(Stream inputStream)
        {
            inputStream = PgpUtilities.GetDecoderStream(inputStream);
            PgpPublicKeyRingBundle pgpPub = new PgpPublicKeyRingBundle(inputStream);

            foreach (PgpPublicKeyRing keyRing in pgpPub.GetKeyRings())
            {
                foreach (PgpPublicKey key in keyRing.GetPublicKeys())
                {
                    if (key.IsEncryptionKey)
                    {
                        return key;
                    }
                }
            }

            throw new ArgumentException("Can't find encryption key in key ring.");
        }

        public static void EncryptPgpFile(string inputFile, string outputFile)
        {
            // use armor: yes, use integrity check? yes?
            EncryptPgpFile(inputFile, outputFile, PublicKeyPath, true, true);
        }

        public static void EncryptPgpFile(string inputFile, string outputFile, string publicKeyFile, bool armor, bool withIntegrityCheck)
        {
            using (Stream publicKeyStream = File.OpenRead(publicKeyFile))
            {
                PgpPublicKey pubKey = ReadPublicKey(publicKeyStream);

                using (MemoryStream outputBytes = new MemoryStream())
                {
                    PgpCompressedDataGenerator dataCompressor = new PgpCompressedDataGenerator(CompressionAlgorithmTag.Zip);
                    PgpUtilities.WriteFileToLiteralData(dataCompressor.Open(outputBytes), PgpLiteralData.Binary, new FileInfo(inputFile));

                    dataCompressor.Close();
                    PgpEncryptedDataGenerator dataGenerator = new PgpEncryptedDataGenerator(SymmetricKeyAlgorithmTag.Cast5, withIntegrityCheck, new SecureRandom());

                    dataGenerator.AddMethod(pubKey);
                    byte[] dataBytes = outputBytes.ToArray();

                    using (Stream outputStream = File.Create(outputFile))
                    {
                        if (armor)
                        {
                            using (ArmoredOutputStream armoredStream = new ArmoredOutputStream(outputStream))
                            {
                                IoHelper.WriteStream(dataGenerator.Open(armoredStream, dataBytes.Length), ref dataBytes);
                            }
                        }
                        else
                        {
                            IoHelper.WriteStream(dataGenerator.Open(outputStream, dataBytes.Length), ref dataBytes);
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }

        // Note: I was able to extract the private key into xml format .Net expecs with this
        public static string GetPrivateKeyXml(string inputData)
        {
            Stream inputStream = IoHelper.GetStream(inputData);
            PgpObjectFactory pgpFactory = new PgpObjectFactory(PgpUtilities.GetDecoderStream(inputStream));
            PgpObject pgp = null;
            if (pgpFactory != null)
            {
                pgp = pgpFactory.NextPgpObject();
            }

            PgpEncryptedDataList encryptedData = null;
            if (pgp is PgpEncryptedDataList)
            {
                encryptedData = (PgpEncryptedDataList)pgp;
            }
            else
            {
                encryptedData = (PgpEncryptedDataList)pgpFactory.NextPgpObject();
            }

            Stream privateKeyStream = File.OpenRead(PrivateKeyOnlyPath);

            // find secret key
            PgpSecretKeyRingBundle pgpKeyRing = new PgpSecretKeyRingBundle(PgpUtilities.GetDecoderStream(privateKeyStream));
            PgpPrivateKey privateKey = null;

            foreach (PgpPublicKeyEncryptedData pked in encryptedData.GetEncryptedDataObjects())
            {
                privateKey = FindSecretKey(pgpKeyRing, pked.KeyId, Password.ToCharArray());
                if (privateKey != null)
                {
                    //pubKeyData = pked;
                    break;
                }
            }

            // get xml:
            RsaPrivateCrtKeyParameters rpckp = ((RsaPrivateCrtKeyParameters)privateKey.Key);
            RSAParameters dotNetParams = DotNetUtilities.ToRSAParameters(rpckp);
            RSA rsa = RSA.Create();
            rsa.ImportParameters(dotNetParams);
            string xmlPrivate = rsa.ToXmlString(true);

            return xmlPrivate;
        }
    }
}

IoHelper.cs

using System.IO;
using System.Reflection;

namespace EncryptionSample
{
    public static class IoHelper
    {
        public static readonly string BasePath = Path.GetDirectoryName(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location);

        public static Stream GetStream(string stringData)
        {
            MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream();
            StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter(stream);
            writer.Write(stringData);
            writer.Flush();
            stream.Position = 0;
            return stream;
        }

        public static string GetString(Stream inputStream)
        {
            string output;
            using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(inputStream))
            {
                output = reader.ReadToEnd();
            }
            return output;
        }

        public static void WriteStream(Stream inputStream, ref byte[] dataBytes)
        {
            using (Stream outputStream = inputStream)
            {
                outputStream.Write(dataBytes, 0, dataBytes.Length);
            }
        }
    }
}

Program.cs

namespace EncryptionSample
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            // note: all key info is in app.config

            // pass in a string encrypted data to decrypt
            string decrypted = CryptoHelper.DecryptPgpData("-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- some pgp-wrapped encrypted string that the private key and password will open");

            // pass in 2 file paths to generate the encrypted file
            // (IoHelper.BasePath is just the path where the executable is running)
            CryptoHelper.EncryptPgpFile(IoHelper.BasePath + @"\plain-text.txt", IoHelper.BasePath + @"\pgp-encrypted.asc");

            // if you need to convert a private key from a pgp to xml format:
            string xmlPPrivateKey = CryptoHelper.GetPrivateKeyXml("-----BEGIN PGP PRIVATE KEY BLOCK----- a pgp private key");
        }
    }
}

I have an error .
encryptedData.GetEncryptedDataObjects() is null ?

Why ?

How to convert the .gpg file in excel. can you give me solution?

I have an error .
encryptedData.GetEncryptedDataObjects() is null ?

Why ?

did you find a solution to this?

Where can i get the Public Key & Private Key files.

Hi

I have a requirement to Encrypt using Private key , can anyone help. Above code gives error as I dont have Public key, client has just provided private key and wants us to encrypt file using that.

@susilpadhi https://www.gpg4win.org/

Hi i've copied your code but seems to be pgputilities doesn't have "WriteFileToLiteralData" method FYR i'm attaching screen shot please check and help