> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 09:03:42AM -0700, Larry Seabrook wrote: > > Hello, > > > > We are using the Gpg4Win product for encrypting files. > > > > The files we are encrypting and sending are text files with carriage-return > > and linefeed characters at the end of each line (record). > > > > The receiver of these files needs the CR and LF characters preserved by the > > encryption-decryption process. The files contain valid text data only. > > > > When the file is decrypted by the receiver using another PGP-compliant > > product, the CR and LF characters are lost. > > > > I BELIEVE we need to use the TEXTMODE=ON option when encrypting the file > > but the GUI for Gpg4Win does not reference this option, not can I find any > > reference to a Configuration File in the Gpg4Win GUI or documentation. > > > > QUESTION: How is TEXTMODE=ON or it's equivalent set when using Gpg4Win? > > "TEXTMODE=ON" is an old PGP 2.x command. It has nothing to do with GPG. > Plus, it's actually the opposite of what you want. In OpenPGP, a text file > is canonicalized into a standard format when encrypted, and re-canonicalized > to the platform local format when decrypted. > Both of these steps can change the CRLF line ending. > > If you want to guarantee that there are no changes at all, and the decrypted > data is a byte for byte copy of the original, then turn off textmode.
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 12:45:39PM -0700, Larry Seabrook wrote: > David, > > Do you recommend having a "gpg.conf" file containing "TEXTMODE=OFF" or just > omitting that file altogether? > > Thanks, > > Larry Please do not top-post. As I said, TEXTMODE=whatever is not a GPG command. It has no functionality in GPG whatsoever. GPG defaults to textmode being disabled. If you are not turning it on, GPG doesn't turn it on for you. David _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
