Comments on: GnuPG Encryption with PHP

By: swapnil

swapnil — Wed, 13 Aug 2014 11:02:59 +0000

Hi All ,

I got error while page running from web browser. Please check below error :

Crypt_GPG_FileException: Error reading GnuPG data file ‘/var/www/.gnupg/trustdb.gpg’. Check to make sure it is readable by the current user. in /var/www/testCrypt/GPG.php on line 454.

We have configuration Server Ubuntu : 12.04 ,PHP 5.3. also set the permission to /var/www/.gnupg check below :

dwr——- 2 root root .gnupg

I have checked the web user is like www-data.

Could somebody help me on this ?

Thanks,
Swapnil

By: Brandon

Brandon — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 01:32:33 +0000

Ubuntu packages are now libgpgme11 and libgpgme11-dev

By: Hani

Hani — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 01:55:45 +0000

I changed the way errors are handled and now I am showing a “get_key failed” error. So this would be a permission issue correct? I’m not TOO savvy working in shell, so how would I go about checking permissions (and on what folders/files) and then change them as I need to? Any guidance is appreciated!

By: Hani

Hani — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 01:28:35 +0000

Thanks for the tutorial, Brandon!

I can’t seem to figure out why, but the decrypted text is showing up blank for me. The encrypted text shows up just fine – but there is nothing after “Decrypted Text”. There aren’t any errors either. Any ideas about what could be happening or tips on how to troubleshoot some more? (Been looking high and low for any possible reason for the issue I’m facing.

Thanks!

By: John

John — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 23:09:37 +0000

Thank you for this post! Had to apply fixes mentioned in the comments, but due to some permissions issues I’ve been trying to gnupg-php work for hours and this post solved it for me.

By: Atul

Atul — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:33:28 +0000

This helped us a lot. Thank you for all the great work and also some of your inputs in the posts too.

Thank you,
Atul

By: dave

dave — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 23:30:12 +0000

works really well.
appreciate it.

–gen–keygpg
has now been changed to –gen–key
tks,
d.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 20:35:08 +0000

In reply to Bartek. @Bartek, if it works from the command line, but not when accessed through the web server, my guess would be some permissions problem. Try watching the web server's error log for indications of the failure. Make sure that the user which the web server runs under has permission to read the private key file and write to the temporary directory.

By: Bartek

Bartek — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 06:54:13 +0000

Hello,

I have problems with decrypt in php. With command line i haven’t any problems.

I don’t know what to do. I always got decrypt failed error.

By: Sven

Sven — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:28:52 +0000

Hi Brandon,

thx for this nice post. It was very useful for me.

I found 2 errors in Your Application code:

on Line 9
dont use $encrypted = $this->gpg->encrypt($data);
use $encrypted = $gpg->encrypt($data);

on Line 21 change gnugp_fingerprint to gnupg_fingerprint

Greetings from Germany, Sven