OpenKeychain: Easy PGP Apk
Latest version 6.0.4
08 Mar 2024
Apk Infos
| Version | 6.0.4 |
| Rating | 4.1/5, based on 4,110 votes |
| Size | 10.3 MB |
| Requires Android | Android 4.0+ (Ice Cream Sandwich) |
| Author's Notes | Encrypt your Files and Communications. Compatible with the OpenPGP Standard. |
About OpenKeychain: Easy PGP APK
Table Of Contents
Description
OpenKeychain helps you communicate more privately and securely. It uses encryption to ensure that your messages can be read only by the people you send them to, others can send you messages that only you can read, and these messages can be digitally signed so the people getting them are sure who sent them. OpenKeychain is based on the well established OpenPGP standard making encryption compatible across your devices and systems. For a list of compatible software for Windows, Mac OS, and other operating systems consult http://openpgp.org/software/.Modern encryption is based on digital “keys”. OpenKeychain stores and manages your keys, and those of the people you communicate with, on your Android smartphone. It also helps you find others’ keys online, and exchange keys. But its most frequent use is in using those keys to encrypt and decrypt messages.
★ Integration with other Apps:
• K-9 Mail
• Conversations
• and many more…
★ Open Source: OpenKeychain is designed to be trustworthy. It’s Free Software with no secrets; anyone can examine and validate every bit of it (Source code available at https://github.com/open-keychain/open-keychain)
★ Independent Security Audit: The auditing company Cure53 performed an intensive security audit of OpenKeychain. The security experts summarize their final result with "[...] none of the spotted issues were considered to be of a critical severity in terms of security implications. The latter is a significant and impressive result for an app of this complexity and relevance."
★ Permissions: Because OpenKeychain is Free Software, anyone can validate that the permissions are indeed only required for the listed features.
• In-app purchases: Donate to the developers
• Identity: Pre-fill name and email addresses
• Contacts: Connect keys to your contacts (only offline)
• Photos/Media/Files: Import/export keys from SD card
• Camera: Scan QR Codes to add other people's keys
• Others: Internet permission to retrieve keys, NFC permission to use YubiKeys
Starting with Android 6, permissions are requested when required in-app!
Latest updates
What's new in version 6.0.4
* Updates for Android 14* Support NitroKey 3
* ECC 25519 is now the default generated key type
* Various bug fixes
How to install OpenKeychain: Easy PGP APK on Android phone or tablet?
Download OpenKeychain: Easy PGP APK file from ApkClean, then follow these steps:
Update Phone Settings
- Go to your phone Settings page
- Tap Security or Applications (varies with device)
- Check the Unknown Sources box
- Confirm with OK
Go to Downloads
- Open Downloads on your device by going to My Files or Files
- Tap the APK file you downloaded (org.sufficientlysecure.keychain-v6.0.4-ApkClean.apk)
- Tap Install when prompted, the APK file you downloaded will be installed on your device.
Older Versions
| 6.0.4 (60400) | 10.3 MB |
| 5.7.4 (57400) | 9.6 MB |
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User's Reivew
2 ★Everything was ok before the latest update, but now i can't use my yubi key anymore. I get wierd error, and after removing the old key, i can't import it again.
2 ★Okay but Where is Private key option ???
3 ★App is useful but user experience is terrible. Not even on an app can GPG be easy? Absolute nightmare to import a key.
3 ★So far seems to be the best solution for GPG/PGP on my Samsung Galaxy S10 Android phone. Was pleasantly surprised to find that when I plugged my SCR3500C portable smartcard reader with USB-C adapter that I use for my MacBookPro that the phone detected it and asked to use it with OpenKeychain; however, that is when my hopes were deflated when I found that OpenKeychain couldn't use my OpenPGP smartcard in the reader. I have a published key policy that doesn't allow for installing a private key on a device other than the smartcard so it's useless for me to be able to sign email messages when sending from my phone, but I can at least import public keys and verify signatures on messages I receive now which is an improvement. Being able to use my OpenPGP smartcard would be a feature I'd actually pay for if it worked.
4 ★All in all, a very great replacement to APG. I have one problem though which is that it is not allowing me to use older keys as they're branded 'insecure'. I get that it could be a problem, but for certain legacy items which cannot have the key changed, I'm now being forced to use no encryption at all. Is it possible to give the user the option to use the key anyway, even if you deem it to be insecure?
2 ★Have used this app for a while with no issues until last Android update. As another reviewer mentioned, the app will no longer recognize pgp text in the clipboard. If you copy your pgp text and click "read from clipboard", an error message pops up saying "no data to decrypt". This needs to be fixed ASAP, as the app has no decrypting ability. ..my review would be 5 stars if this were fixed.
4 ★Very helpful and interesting app. Using for a year or more. But, I'm facing some inconvenience due to a missing feature. In this app, I found no way to generate and export a revocation certificate locally. For cases, where I don't want to upload my keys to a keyserver and share my public key locally using file sharing, email or IM, I get no option to share my revocation certificate with anyone locally (using the above mentioned medias). Adding that feature will be helpful for people like me.
4 ★Great app. Would be nicer if it included save as text file for text decryption.
2 ★It worked great the first few times I used the clipboard to decrypt keys then all of the sudden it does not work. Every time now it shows, "no data to decrypt" when I use it. I'm now looking for another pgp app unless they can fix this. I am running Android 9 on a Motorola g7 optimo maxx, I was very happy with it until this happened. Hope you can fix it.
2 ★Missing a key feature (for me, at least). While it does have the ability to utilize two-key cryptography on both files and presumably emails via the clipboard, it seemingly lacks the ability to sign or verify signatures on emails. While this doesn't render the app useless, it does make it less than useful to me unless I'm willing to replace my email client. It's been uninstalled.
3 ★Crashes are infrequent but when it does crash, it'll be a crash loop or the app will no longer open without crashing. Reinstalling the app fixes this. The notification for linking to contacts keeps showing up. Also, I wonder if there are other apps than K-9 Mail that works with this app? K-9 Mail doesn't work.
2 ★what a pile. the UI is pretty but confusing. you can't import multiple keys at a time, which means you have to spend HOURS doing it if you work at a corp of any size. terminology is inconsistent with industry standards. it's slow and forces key standards whether you need them or not, which makes working with legacy systems impossible. man, I miss APG...
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