It sometimes happens that your Public PGP Key is not recognized by one of our WordPress plugins, wp2pgpmail or Gravity Forms PGP Encryption. In this case, there is an easy trick to solve the problem. You only need to use Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox with Mailvelope, a free extension. Let’s see what to do.
Let’s say that the following Public PGP Key, created with Gpg4win, is not recognized by the plugin:
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Import the key in Mailvelope:
Then, display the key by clicking on it:
Go to the Export tab to display the Public PGP Key Block:
Here the new version of the key. It contains absolutely the same data, but, as you can see, the block is different:
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Only the display is different, nothing else has changed; the private key remains unchanged. You can then import the new version of the public key in the WordPress plugin, and you should not get any error 🙂
Hello! I followed the instructions described above but it still does not work. Everytime I click “Save Changes” it tells me only “Forbidden. You don’t have permission to access this resource.”
What can I do to get the plugin working?
Thanks in advance!
All the best
Hi,
Please, send us your PGP Public Key to [email protected]
We will help you to check what’s going wrong.
Thanks