gpg -c does NOT work

Volker Quetschke quetschke@scytek.de
Thu Aug 7 07:52:00 GMT 2003


Hi Karl,

> i'm trying to use gpg in symmetric cipher mode.  when i encrypt
> and then decrypt, i get the strange result that my file has SLIGHTLY
> changed (an error every 32 bytes, or so.)
> 
<example snipped>
> 
> foo bar differ: char 39, line 1

Can you try:
$ gpg --output bar -d foo.gpg

I'd be interested if it's a gpg problem or a > problem.

Please also show us the output of:
$ mount

> (i just had a thought: is this a result of LF/CR conversion?)
Pretty sure, because I tried your example and it works well
without problems. I only have binary mounts.

Volker

(Cygwin gnupg maintainer)

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