Greetings oh wise ones. I have been using Crypt::OpenPGP for a while now to encrypt plain text and text files but now I want to expand upon that. The following code encrypts a txt file just fine but fails if the file is an exe or a zip file. Is Crypt::OpenPGP capable of doing this or am I barking up the wrong tree? As always any help is appreciated. 
    $pubringfile = "C:\\pgp\\public.gpg";
    $destfile = "C:\\temp\\dest.gpg";
    $srcfile = "c:\\temp\\source.zip";
    use Crypt::OpenPGP;
        $pgp = Crypt::OpenPGP->new (
           "PubRing" => $pubringfile #### Define path to public ring t
+o be used for encryption
      );
        unless($pgp){
            my $err = join(" ", "\n\nCOULD NOT ENCRYPT DATA ", Crypt::
+OpenPGP->errstr, "\n\n");
            &sndevent("1017", 1, $err);
            die;
        }
                
        my $ciphertext = $pgp->encrypt (
        "Filename"        =>  $srcfile,
        "Recipients"  =>  'myemail@hotmail.com',
        "Cipher"        => 'DES3',
        "Armour"    => 0
        );
        unless($ciphertext){
            my $err = join(" ", "\n\nCOULD NOT ENCRYPT DATA ", Crypt::
+OpenPGP->errstr, "\n\n");
            print "$err\n";
        }
        open (FILEHANDLE,">$destfile");
        print FILEHANDLE "$ciphertext";
        close FILEHANDLE;

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In reply to Can Crypt::OpenPGP Encrypt exe or zip files by boat73

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