Straddle may request your organization to upload files for additional analysis or for a proof of concept of various services.
Payment and sensitive personal data must always be encrypted before it can be shared with Straddle.
Examples of files that can be uploaded include:
Feedback files: Consumer, business, or bank account records that have been scored by Straddle.
POC (Proof of Concept) files and Retro files: Records that have not been scored by Straddle.
All files must be in CSV format and encrypted using the Gnu Privacy Guard (GPG) implementation of the Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) encryption standard before they are uploaded to the Straddle file server.
Compile your data with the required and requested data field types. Save the file in CSV format with the correct naming convention. For more information on the required data field types, see the data field types document.
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Download your PGP public key
Every data file sent sent to Straddle must be encrypted using the Straddle-provided PGP public key. Do not use any other public keys for encryption.
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Encrypt the CSV file with PGP
Straddle provisions you with a public PGP key pair for encryption. You can access the PGP public key below
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Upload the file to Straddle
Once you have encrypted the CSV file with the PGP public key, you can upload the file to the Straddle file server.
The file encryption process in this section uses the Gnu Privacy Guard (GPG) implementation of the PGP encryption standard. To encrypt your CSV file, complete the following steps:
Open the command line on your computer.
Import your Straddle PGP key with the following command:
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gpg --import {key}.asc
If successful, the command line returns a message similar to the following:
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gpg: key 6CFE17E37C6960B7: public key "straddle share <trust@straddle.io>"imported gpg: Total number processed: 1gpg: imported: 1
Use the —encrypt option to encrypt the file and specify the following options:
clientname_encrypted.gpg: The name of the newly encrypted file.