Re: WinXP problem with large files was: Re: Decrypt problem with large file

2007-11-28 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Werner, do you use GetFileSize or GetFileSizeEx? There are also Since 1.4.3 we are using GetFileSizeEx if available on the platform. We use it todecide whether a file is close to 4GB - if this is the case we use OpenPGP's partial encoding form

Re: WinXP problem with large files was: Re: Decrypt problem with large file

2007-11-28 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I also recall that Werner stated the AES code in GnuPG wouldn't be > optimized for a number of reasons, becasue of security (timing > attacks), and also a desire to keep GnuPG architecture-agnostinc. The Nope. It is just that nobody has found

Re: WinXP problem with large files was: Re: Decrypt problem with large file

2007-11-28 Thread Snoken
Hi again, I found the old thread: Trouble decrypting AES256 symmetric encrypted file: You (Ryan) wrote: This is surpisingly *not* a Windows issue. We have 200+ GB database files on many of our database servers. All using NTFS. I think the issue is that GnuPG is using a 32-bit DWORD file pointer

Re: WinXP problem with large files was: Re: Decrypt problem with large file

2007-11-27 Thread Ryan Malayter
> Snoken wrote: > > is the old problem with files greater than 4 GB solved? How large > > files can gpg handle on WindowsXP? On other systems? My recollection is that the file size issue was fixed years ago, as it was a limitation in the MinGW layer or something that was remedied. I never followed

Re: WinXP problem with large files was: Re: Decrypt problem with large file

2007-11-27 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Snoken wrote: > is the old problem with files greater than 4 GB solved? How large > files can gpg handle on WindowsXP? On other systems? Depends a lot on your filesystem. FAT32 doesn't like files greater than 4GB, no matter what program makes them. NTFS does not have this limitation. I have see

WinXP problem with large files was: Re: Decrypt problem with large file

2007-11-27 Thread Snoken
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, is the old problem with files greater than 4 GB solved? How large files can gpg handle on WindowsXP? On other systems? Snoken At 00:39 2007-11-18, you wrote: - --snip-- >I found a thread discussing a similar decryption problem in the Gnupg-users