What is a .PGP file?
PGP is an OpenPGP encrypted message, key or signature.
- Did you know
- PGP brought strong public-key encryption to ordinary email back in 1991.
- Phil Zimmermann named PGP after “Ralph’s Pretty Good Grocery” from Garrison Keillor’s fictional Lake Wobegon.
- Exporting PGP made Zimmermann the target of a US arms-export investigation that was dropped without charges in 1996.
- What Analyser reads
- Identify and read more security and forensics files: OpenPGP messages/keys/signatures (.pgp/.gpg/.sig - armor type, packet walk, key algorithm and user ID, secret-key warning), YARA rules, Snort/Suricata IDS rules, STIX/OpenIOC threat intel, Fiddler captures (.saz), 1Password exports (.1pux), Apple Keychain, KeePass 1.x (.kdb), Microsoft keys (.pvk) and AFF/AFF4 forensic images.
- Depth of analysis
- .PGP is an identification-grade format: Analyser recognises it from its bytes and decodes the header metadata it carries, rather than opening it in a full viewer. Formats that do get a full viewer are marked "Full" on the formats page.
- Open a .PGP file
- Drag a .PGP file onto the Analyser home page (or tap to pick one). It is identified entirely in your browser - nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works offline once installed.