Can IPAD or Android Tablets create Keys and use gnupg

[Bernhard Reiter]

Am Mittwoch 10 März 2021 09:12:03 schrieb geostyles2020--- via Gnupg-users:
>  Can IPAD or Android Tablets create Keys and use gnupg

GnuPG is a crypto tool, which implements standards like OpenPGP
and Cryptographic Message Syntax. 

An email application is needed in addition 
to read and send OpenPGP/MIME or S/MIME emails.

(There are other tools, that also implement those standards.)

So your question can be understood in several dimentions:
a) is there a port (or distribution) of GnuPG
   for Android?
   
Not really. Details: There used to be 
https://github.com/guardianproject/gnupg-for-android
but it is unmaintained and outdated.
So it is technically feasable, but not one does the work.

b) is there a port (or distribution) of GnuPG
   for iOS?

Not that I know of. 
Details: There are probably technical and license challenges to port
GnuPG to iOS. While I believe that it is possible to port C applications
to iOS, it is unclear if someone could place it is in the appstore.
Note that GnuPG ports to MacOSX exist.


c) Are there compatible OpenPGP and OpenPGP/MIME implementations for
   Android?

Yes, e.g. Openkeychain + K9Mail (both being Free Software)


d) Are there compatible OpenPGP and OpenPGP/MIME implementations for iOS?

Yes, though proprietary Software (AFAIK), for example I've heard about
Canary Mail, iPGMail, PGPro, Safe Easy Privacy

Regards,
Bernhard

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