Hello! I'm trying to get rid of using GPG for encrypting some files since GPG requires exec for the pear crypt library and a GPG install. I've made a test implementation that uses OpenSSL public private keys generated like this: openssl genrsa -des3 -out priv.pem 2048 openssl rsa -in priv.pem -out pub.pem -outform PEM -pubout And then I encrypt the data by looping through it like this (where chunk is the length of the key used): while($data) { $chunk = substr(data, [...]); [...] openssl_public_encrypt($chunk, $encryptedBlock, $publicKey); $output .= $encryptedBlock; } How is this implementation security-wise compared to gpg for encrypting files? I don't need to keep out the NSA, but I want the files to be hard to decrypt for an intruder. Any help is highly appreciated. Thanks! Regards, Emil