Greetings,
I'm working on automating a nightly process that our technicians spend two hours on every day. The process begins with receipt of a Self Decrypting Archive file. Our technicians rename the file with a .EXE file extension. Afterward they run the .EXE file and are prompted for a passphrase. After the passphrase is supplied the decrypted file is created in the same directory that the .EXE is in.
The issue I'm finding is that it's not possible to, using the PGP Command Line software (or GPG, or traditional PGP software), automate the process of decrypting the file. When trying to do so with command line syntax it results with an error indicating that the .EXE does not contain PGP data.
I've read some brief comments about a workaround which involves parsing the EXE headers and extracting the encrypted data that way, but sadly that is outside of my wheelhouse.
Is this something that anyone else has dealt with before?
Thank you for your time.