You're correct — neither the SFTP nor SFTP Bulk connectors currently support PGP encryption/decryption. This has been raised as a feature request in the Airbyte community. [
Enhancement Request]
The knowledge sources do not contain information about a built-in or officially supported workaround for PGP decryption within Airbyte Cloud. Your main options, based on what the community has discussed, are:
1.
Contribute to the connector: You could contribute PGP decryption functionality to the existing SFTP connectors by submitting a pull request to the Airbyte GitHub repository. [
Enhancement Request]
2.
Build a custom connector: You could create your own custom version of the SFTP connector that includes PGP decryption logic. However, note that deploying fully custom connectors on
Airbyte Cloud has limitations — custom connectors are more straightforward on self-hosted (Open Source/Enterprise) deployments.
3.
Pre-process files before ingestion: A common practical workaround is to decrypt the PGP-encrypted files
before they land on the SFTP server (or in an intermediate storage layer), so Airbyte only needs to read already-decrypted files.
Unfortunately, there is no native PGP decryption option available in the current SFTP or SFTP Bulk connectors on Airbyte Cloud. If this is a critical requirement, I'd recommend:
• Upvoting or commenting on the existing feature request in the
Airbyte Community Slack to increase visibility.
• Checking the
Airbyte connector support levels page for guidance on contributing. 👍 0 button 👎 0 button ℹ️
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