Re: Problem decrypting large file.

2006-03-21 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 06:32:44 -0500, Peter C Chapin said: > the workaround described in the September posts was shown to possibly not > work in the October posts and no resolution was discussed. Am I to > conclude that gpg simply can't reliably encrypt multi-gigabyte files on It definitely can. T

Re: Problem decrypting large file.

2006-03-21 Thread Peter C. Chapin
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Alphax wrote: > http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2005-September/026646.html > > http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2005-October/027259.html > > http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2006-February/028073.html > > and their replies. Thanks for the

Re: Problem decrypting large file.

2006-03-21 Thread Peter C. Chapin
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Werner Koch wrote: > It definitely can. The safe why of doing so is by using i/o > redirection; i.e.: > > gpg -e plain.gpg > > This way the size of PLAIN is irrelevant to gpg. The shell (cmd.exe) > is responsible for opening the files the correct way. Hmmm. The post here

Re: Problem decrypting large file.

2006-03-21 Thread Alphax
Peter C. Chapin wrote: > Hello! I've googled a bit on this problem but I have not so far found > anything helpful. > http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2005-September/026646.html http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2005-October/027259.html http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnu

Problem decrypting large file.

2006-03-20 Thread Peter C. Chapin
Hello! I've googled a bit on this problem but I have not so far found anything helpful. I am using gpg v1.4.2 on Windows (*not* the Cygwin version of gpg). I recently encrypted a rather large archive file... over 6 GBytes. However, when I tried to decrypt it using exactly the same gpg program, I