Execute Process Task: Issues encrypting text file using PGP in SSIS 2022

• Lord Slaagh

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  January 15, 2026 at 8:50 pm

  #4717327

  Hello SSC,

  Has anyone encountered this before???

  I have an odd issue that I need to debug. I am encrypting a text file to PGP. I am able to do this locally without any issues, but when I try to transfer the file to the SFTP site, it fails. I Googled this issue and actually watched a bunch of videos on file encryption, and it looks like I am doing this correctly. Code sample and the response from the recipient is below.

  Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!

  Execute Process Task:
  
  Executable: C:\blah\blah\bin\gpg.exe
  
  Arguments: --output Somefile.txt.gpg --encrypt --recipient Somewhere@Someplace.com Somefile.txt

  "Non-UTF8 characters aren’t accepted and can cause issues during the file load process. I noticed your file contains non-UTF8 characters in multiple rows. When opened in Notepad++, these lines typically look like the example below. Error loading client records. File received contained over 90 percent invalid records."

  

   

   

   

   

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