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Status Delivered
Categories Usability
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 2, 2022

Allow selection of PGP Profile on the Partner Profile in SFG - currently SFG only allows AFTPGPProfile

File Gateway today only allow the use of the static PGP Profile named 'AFTPGPProfile' - thus allowing only 1 type of PGP encryption to be used platform wide. We have vendors (using AWS S3) that only support the OpenPGP standard / GnuPGP for encrypted files and the inability to specify a different PGP Profile per Consumer/Partner is a real limitation on moving away from / to Native PGP with the current 'all or none' mode of SFG only allowing the use of ONE PGP Profile.

What is your industry? Insurance
How will this idea be used?

If you have a partner you want to convert to Native PGP or some other PGP provider simply create a new PGP Profile in Sterling and configure that Consumer in File Gateway to use the new PGP Profile.