Once someone has sent you protected files, you will need to unprotect them with FAOPGP CLS, FAOPGP Reader or any other OpenPGP compatible software before you can use them.
Unprotecting Files using Command Line Scriptor
Files can be unprotected (decrypted and verified) by checking the Unprotect box in the CLS Command Editor. You need to specify the files you want to unprotect and what you want to to with the files after they have been unprotected. Any files that are encrypted will be decrypted (provided of course you have the correct private key in your keystore) and any digitally signed files will be verified. No keys need to be specified as CLS will automatically work out what keys have been used to protect the files and unprotect them accordingly. See the Command Editor for further information.
Receiving files via FTP - Automatic processing
You can schedule FAOPGP CLS to automatically check for protected files every x amount of minutes / hours in specific folders and process them accordingly. For example:
"C:\Program Files\ArticSoft\FileAssurity OpenPGP\bin\scriptor.exe" - unprotect "C:\Docs\*.pgp,C:\Incoming\*.asc"
Unprotects and verifies all of the protected files in the 'C:\Docs' folder
If no file extension is specified (eg. *.pgp) then FAOPGP CLS will automatically unprotect all protected files in the specified folders. See also unprotection command line parameters
If you get a java.io.IOException error message on decryption this is because the file has been corrupted and therefore cannot be decrypted. The most likely reason for this is that one or both of the parties transferred a binary file (PGP) in ASCII format.
Receiving files via email - manual processing
If someone has sent you protected files via email they will appear as attachments to the mail message. Select the attachment(s) in your email application and select 'Save it to disk' to save them to a folder of your choice.
Once they have been saved to disk you can decrypt them using FAOPGP CLS or any other OpenPGP compatible software.