Decrypting Reports Using Your PGP Key Pair on macOS

Note: This tutorial assumes you received reports via email or via FTP that were encrypted with the public key you sent to IBKR . If you need guidance to set up the encrypted statement delivery, please refer to this article, which is a prerequisite to the instructions below.

1. Open Finder

2. Right click on the .gpg file you want to decrypt

3. Select Services > OpenPGP: Decrypt File

 

Common Issues/Questions

  • Decryption failed with error 'No Secret Key'

This is commonly caused when the wrong encryption key is used to decrypt the file.  If decryption is being done on a computer other than the original computer used to create the public/private keys, the keys would have to be transferred from the original computer to the new computer

If the above does not help, then a new public/private key pair needs to be created and sent to us.

 

Related articles

KB3842 - Using GPG/RSA encryption keys to guarantee the privacy and security of your Reports
KB3968 - Generate a key pair using GPG for Windows
KB4205 - Generate a key pair using GPG Suite on macOS
KB4108 - Decrypt your Reports using GPG for Windows
KB4407 - Generate RSA Key Pair on Windows
KB4578 - How to Access your Reports using FTP on Windows
KB4580 - How to Access your Reports using FTP on MacOS
KB4409 - How to set up sFTP for using Certificate Authentication on Windows
KB4410 - How to set up sFTP for using Certificate Authentication on macOS
KB4411 - How to backup your public/private Key pair 
KB4323 - How to transfer your public/private key pair from one computer to another