Decryption pgp file in Azure gen2 via ADF

Question

Hi there,
I have a encrypted pgp file in Azure gen2 and wanna decrypt it by using any functionality in Data Factory, is there anything available for doing that?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Thank you @John Aherne , for sharing your inputs and helping the community.

Hi @Ruby0911 ,

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A platform and thanks for using this forum.

Unfortunately there is no out of box feature in Azure Data factory to perform encryption/decryption of files. Below are couple of feature request suggestions submitted by other Azure users. Please feel free to comment and/or up-vote the user voice items to increase the priority of feature implementation.

• https://feedback.azure.com/forums/270578-data-factory/suggestions/40410025-ability-to-decrypt-and-encrypt-the-incoming-and-ou
• https://feedback.azure.com/forums/270578-data-factory/suggestions/41023156-add-support-for-gpg-file-decryption

As @John Aherne , called out, to move data to/from a data store that Data Factory does not support, or to transform/process data in a way that isn't supported by Data Factory, you can create a Custom activity with your own data movement or transformation logic and use the activity in a pipeline. Or another option you could try out is Azure Function Activity.

Additional info :
Here are few related helpful resources:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59684353/azure-pgp-gpg-decryption-of-files
• https://github.com/lfalck/AzureFunctionsPGPDecrypt
• https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/storage/blobs/storage-encrypt-decrypt-blobs-key-vault

Hope this info helps.

Thank you

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Answer 2

You can call a batch service via a custom activity to run your decryption.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-factory/transform-data-using-dotnet-custom-activity