Many companies use standard protocols such as FTP and SFTP to transfer files to external partner and receive files from external partners. Using FTP and SFTP provides simple to use and low cost platform for file exchange. In some business scenarios, companies may have to exchange sensitive information such as employee’s personal information, expense reports, payment information etc. Mule has the ability to encrypt a message payload, or part of a payload, using Pretty Good Privacy ( PGP ). PGP combines data compression and data encryption to secure messages. The compression reduces message transmission time between origin and destination. There are two scenarios that this document addresses: Using another party’s public key to encrypt a messages in a Mule application Using one’s own set of private and public keys so as to accept, and decrypt messages in a Mule application. What is Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)? Pretty Good Privacy ( PGP ) is a data encryption and decryption ...