Manual Processing of Secure Forms


If you have selected ‘Email’ as the mechanism to send form data by then the secure form data and any attachments will be sent to the email address(es) contained in the public keys that were used to encrypt the form (these are the keys you added when you created the secure web form) and / or those you have substituted / added.

 The ‘From’ field will display ‘FormsAssurity Secure Web Form’

 The ‘Subject’ field will display the name you have called your secure form

 The email from address will be the one you specified in the ‘message from’ field

Attached to the email will be the secure form contents as an encrypted text file in .asc format, ‘Formdata.txt.asc’

Other items that could be attached to the form are ‘UserKey.asc’ which is the user’s key and will be present if they have digitally signed the form and ‘file.asc’ which is the file they have attached to the form.  If there are additional files they are given numbered extensions, e.g. file2.asc.  All encrypted file content generated by a secure form is in ASCII format and should be accepted by most firewall systems and virus checkers.

The .asc files can be saved to disk and decrypted using any OpenPGP compliant software such as FileAssurity OpenPGP free Reader software, FileAssurity OpenPGP or any other OpenPGP compliant product such as PGP or GnuPGP.

When decrypted, the Formdata.txt file will contain the form fieldnames and the data entered by the user and can be processed as normal by the receiving system.