# kbpgp

> Keybase's PGP Implementation

Latest version **2.1.19** (published 2026-08-27) · BSD-3-Clause license · 0 weekly downloads

## Install

```sh
npm install kbpgp
pnpm add kbpgp
yarn add kbpgp
bun add kbpgp
```

## Health

**Score 65/100 (B)** — status: active.

Positive: has types; no vulnerabilities; recently updated; high maintenance score; high quality score.

Warnings: low downloads; no esm support.

## Facts

| | |
|---|---|
| Version | 2.1.19 |
| Published | 2026-08-27 |
| First published | 2014-02-03 |
| Weekly downloads | 0 |
| License | BSD-3-Clause |
| TypeScript types | bundled |
| Module format | CommonJS |
| Dependencies | 13 |
| Unpacked size | 1.2 MB |
| Known vulnerabilities | 0 |
| Install scripts | no |
| GitHub stars | 538 |
| Author | Maxwell Krohn |
| Maintainers | maxtaco, oconnor663, michalz-zoom |
| Keywords | crypto, pgp, keybase |

## Links

- npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/kbpgp
- Repository: https://github.com/keybase/kbpgp
- Homepage: http://github.com/keybase/kbpgp
- Issues: https://github.com/keybase/kbpgp/issues
- npm.io page: https://npm.io/package/kbpgp

## Dependencies (13)

- [bn](https://npm.io/package/bn.md) ^1.0.5
- [minimist](https://npm.io/package/minimist.md) ^1.2.0
- [purepack](https://npm.io/package/purepack.md) ^1.0.5
- [iced-lock](https://npm.io/package/iced-lock.md) ^1.0.2
- [pgp-utils](https://npm.io/package/pgp-utils.md) 0.0.35
- [triplesec](https://npm.io/package/triplesec.md) ^4.0.3
- [tweetnacl](https://npm.io/package/tweetnacl.md) ^0.13.1
- [deep-equal](https://npm.io/package/deep-equal.md) ^1.1.0
- [iced-error](https://npm.io/package/iced-error.md) 0.0.13
- [bzip-deflate](https://npm.io/package/bzip-deflate.md) ^1.0.0
- [iced-runtime](https://npm.io/package/iced-runtime.md) ^1.0.4
- [keybase-nacl](https://npm.io/package/keybase-nacl.md) ^1.1.2
- [keybase-ecurve](https://npm.io/package/keybase-ecurve.md) ^1.0.1

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## Recent versions

- 2.1.19 (latest) — 2026-08-27
- 2.1.18 — 2026-08-06
- 2.1.17 — 2025-09-15
- 2.1.15 — 2020-04-15
- 2.1.14 — 2020-04-06
- 2.1.13 — 2020-02-24
- 2.1.12 — 2020-02-21
- 2.1.11 — 2020-02-13
- 2.1.10 — 2020-02-12
- 2.1.9 — 2020-01-27
- 2.1.8 — 2020-01-22
- 2.1.7 — 2020-01-16
- 2.1.6 — 2019-11-04
- 2.1.5 — 2019-11-04
- 2.1.4 — 2019-09-23
- … 158 more at https://npm.io/package/kbpgp/versions

## README

## kbpgp - Keybase's PGP for JavaScript

[![CI](https://github.com/keybase/kbpgp/actions/workflows/ci.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/keybase/kbpgp/actions/workflows/ci.yml)

### Tutorial

We have a bunch of examples here:

   - https://keybase.io/kbpgp

### Bugs, issues, comments, questions, and suggestions

If the bug is kbpgp related, and has nothing to do with Keybase, you can post the issue here. If it has anything to do with Keybase -- the command line client, website, etc. -- please post it in our general [keybase issues](https://github.com/keybase/keybase-issues/issues) repo:

  - https://github.com/keybase/keybase-issues/issues

We appreciate comments, questions, feature requests, etc.

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