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This program adds the ability to send and receive PGP encrypted email messages on your BlackBerry smartphone.

Version 4.1 and higher. There are specific downloads for higher versions in order to take advantage of higher version functionalities (e.g.: the trackball and menu key in OS version 4.2+).

Version 1.3.0 (and previous) do not work on OS 5.0 due to a deadlocking bug that RIM introduced. We have created a workaround in version 1.4.0, so that the application will correctly function on an OS 5.0 device.

If your issue is not covered in this FAQ, please contact Atomichelix with the specifics of the problem. We here at Atomichelix are concerned with having our software be of the highest quality, so are glad to fix bugs and issues with the program so that our customers using it can benefit from updates.

Public keys are used to encrypt something for the owner of the private key that public key is paired with. You will need an active public key from each person you want to send an encrypted message to.

You will need a private key in order for you to decrypt messages other people send to you encrypted with the public key that private key is paired with, or for you to digitally sign messages so that others can verify the message comes from you.

Please see this tutorial for how to import a private key into Atomichelix OpenPGP.

For some reason, on OS 5.0, the ".asc" filetypes are registered to be handled by a RIM application that doesn't exist on the device. Because of this, the Atomichelix OpenPGP handler can not be registered for ".asc" filetypes, so we suggest just renaming the ".asc" file to ".ahk". For example, if the name of the file was "public_key.asc", rename it to "public_key.ahk" and open it -- the Atomichelix OpenPGP handler will be able to open the ".ahk" file.

Please see this link for a description of how to export the key from GPG so it will import correctly into Atomichelix OpenPGP.