Re: Possibility of corrupted file?

2012-11-23 Thread Robert J. Hansen
On 11/23/2012 12:17 AM, andr...@fastmail.fm wrote: > What is the possibility of gpg encrypted file becoming corrupted? Miniscule, to the point where I have not ever heard of GnuPG mangling a file. Your file may get corrupted while it's on disk, a stray cosmic ray may flip a bit, and so on, but Gn

Possibility of corrupted file?

2012-11-22 Thread andre76
. What is the possibility of gpg encrypted file becoming corrupted? I use another file encryption program and have never had any problems with any file that was encrypted. So, I'm beginning to experiment with using symmetric encryption of files to myself and I want to get an idea from experience

Re: decrypt corrupted file

2010-06-24 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:41, sasha.sirot...@gmail.com said: > Is it somehow possible to tell pgp to skip the problematic block and > continue in order to rescue at least some information? There is no option for this. Given that decompression is done after decryption, it is technically possible to

decrypt corrupted file

2010-06-23 Thread Alexander (Sasha) Sirotkin
Hello. I have a partially corrupted pgp encrypted file. Decryption fails with the following message: gpg: fatal: zlib inflate problem: invalid block type Is it somehow possible to tell pgp to skip the problematic block and continue in order to rescue at least some information? __

Re: Corrupted File

2010-03-24 Thread Paul Richard Ramer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:56:48 -0700 (PDT), James Board wrote: >> Have you tried decrypting the file with either PGP or >> GnuPG? Also, >> where in the file is the corruption? > > The file is corrupted (a 4096-byte page full of zereos), at seemingly r

Re: Corrupted File

2010-03-24 Thread James Board
> Have you tried decrypting the file with either PGP or > GnuPG?  Also, > where in the file is the corruption? The file is corrupted (a 4096-byte page full of zereos), at seemingly random places, but not near the front of the file. The file was encrypted with PGP 5.0. I tried to decrypt with PG

Re: Corrupted File

2010-03-17 Thread Paul Richard Ramer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello James, On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:02:41 -0700 (PDT) James Board wrote: > I have a fairly large file (about 10 mbytes) that was corrupted on disk. About 5-10 pages of the file (4096-byte blocks) were lost and set to zero. The file is a PGP encry

Corrupted File

2010-03-15 Thread James Board
I have a fairly large file (about 10 mbytes) that was corrupted on disk. About 5-10 pages of the file (4096-byte blocks) were lost and set to zero. The file is a PGP encryption of a another file which is a 'tar' file of other smaller ASCII text files. I would like to decrypt as much of this f

Re: corrupted file?

2009-06-23 Thread Joseph Oreste Bruni
On Jun 23, 2009, at 8:01 PM, David Shaw wrote: On Jun 23, 2009, at 3:35 PM, Joseph Oreste Bruni wrote: ftp(1): ascii Set the file transfer type to network ASCII. This is the default type. Binary is not the default in the command line ftp program. Oddly, it is when I connec

Re: corrupted file?

2009-06-23 Thread David Shaw
On Jun 23, 2009, at 3:35 PM, Joseph Oreste Bruni wrote: Here's the weird part: If I download the file using Safari I receive the file correctly. If I download the file using the command-line "ftp" on either OS X (10.5.7) or FreeBSD (7.2) the file appears corrupted and is slightly smaller.

Re: corrupted file?

2009-06-23 Thread Joseph Oreste Bruni
On Tuesday, June 23, 2009, at 11:31AM, "Charly Avital" wrote: >Joseph Oreste Bruni wrote the following on 6/23/09 1:22 PM: >> Hello, >> The file gnupg-2.0.12.tar.bz2 hosted on ftp.gnupg.org appears to be >> corrupt. >[...] > > >Downloaded from : > >$ gpg --verify p

Re: corrupted file?

2009-06-23 Thread Charly Avital
Joseph Oreste Bruni wrote the following on 6/23/09 1:22 PM: > Hello, > The file gnupg-2.0.12.tar.bz2 hosted on ftp.gnupg.org appears to be > corrupt. [...] Downloaded from : $ gpg --verify path/gnupg-2.0.12.tar.bz2.sig path/gnupg-2.0.12.tar.bz2 gpg: Signature made

corrupted file?

2009-06-23 Thread Joseph Oreste Bruni
Hello, The file gnupg-2.0.12.tar.bz2 hosted on ftp.gnupg.org appears to be corrupt. The signature is not validating. I've tried downloading the file using both Mac OS and FreeBSD with the same results. However, when I retrieve the file from the Canadian mirror ftp.gnupg.ca, the signature valid