PGP Decrypt

Category: PGP

Status: Registered and callable in the CyberChef 11.3.0 compatibility inventory.

Input / output: string → string

Background: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy

What it does

Input: the ASCII-armoured PGP message you want to decrypt. Arguments: the ASCII-armoured PGP private key of the recipient, (and the private key password if necessary). Pretty Good Privacy is an encryption standard (OpenPGP) used for encrypting, decrypting, and signing messages. This function uses the Keybase implementation of PGP.

Note

Status here means the operation name is implemented and callable. It does not by itself promise byte-for-byte parity for every upstream option. See Compatibility and current status for the verified scope and known boundaries.

Warning

This operation currently implements a documented compatibility subset.

Arguments and options

Arguments are positional. Keep their order when using bake() or Pipeline.then().

Index	Name	UI type	PyChef default	Accepted values / format
`0`	Private key of recipient	`text`	`''`	`''`
`1`	Private key passphrase	`string`	`''`	`''`

Recipe template

Important

This is a call template built from the documented defaults. Replace placeholder values such as empty keys, paths, patterns, or lookup data before running it.

from pychef import bake

input_value = "example"
args = ['', '']
result = bake(input_value, [{"op": 'PGP Decrypt', "args": args}])
print(result)

Pipeline example

from pychef import Pipeline

args = ['', '']
transform = Pipeline().then('PGP Decrypt', *args)
result = transform("example")

Direct call

pychef.ops.run_operation runs any registered operation as a plain function, under the active ExecutionPolicy (safe defaults, no network):

from pychef.ops import run_operation

args = ['', '']
result = run_operation('PGP Decrypt', "example", args=args)

Common operations also have typed helpers in Direct operations.

Low-level operation module

Warning

The module below is an internal implementation detail. It applies no execution policy, resource limits, or error sanitization; prefer bake(), Pipeline, or pychef.ops for application code.

The registered entry point lives in pychef.operations.by_operation.pgp_decrypt. Direct calls receive the input value and a positional argument tuple:

from pychef.operations.by_operation.pgp_decrypt import run

result = run("example", tuple(['', '']))

pychef.operations.by_operation.pgp_decrypt.run(value, args)

Run this operation using its shared internal implementation.

Parameters:

value (str | bytes)
args (Sequence[Any])

Return type:

str | bytes