Re: Bad Decrypt message when using -pass pass:

2009-02-13 Thread Steffen DETTMER
Hi all! * Nickfx wrote on Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 08:54 -0800: > Crazy I know. Having removed split, Openssl is now working as > it should. It would seem that there is something screwy with > Cygwins Split or Cat command. I rember that I had trouble because DOS/UNIX line feed translation was perform

Re: Bad Decrypt message when using -pass pass:

2009-02-11 Thread Nick Furneaux
An excellent idea Ger, I will try it now, thanks for replying. Nick On 11 Feb 2009, at 14:04, Ger Hobbelt wrote: Since from the looks of it your feeding enc an entire disc image, the first question of course is: have you tried your process with a smaller file, say a snippet of about 1K of data

Re: Bad Decrypt message when using -pass pass:

2009-02-11 Thread Michael S. Zick
On Wed February 11 2009, Nickfx wrote: > > Thank you for your kind replies. > > Interestingly it appears that 2 days trying to figure out what is wrong with > OpenSSL I was barking up the wrong tree. I omitted from my posted command > line that I was splitting the file after encryption then cat'

Re: Bad Decrypt message when using -pass pass:

2009-02-11 Thread Nickfx
Thank you for your kind replies. Interestingly it appears that 2 days trying to figure out what is wrong with OpenSSL I was barking up the wrong tree. I omitted from my posted command line that I was splitting the file after encryption then cat'ing back together again to decrypt. Against all lo

Re: Bad Decrypt message when using -pass pass:

2009-02-11 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009, Nickfx wrote: > > > Nickfx wrote: > > > > Hi, first post here and I wonder if anyone with a larger brain than me can > > help? > > > > I'm in Windows XP Pro and using DD to image a disk and then pipe to > > openssl to encrypt. I'm using the -pass pass:'anotherpassword' s

Re: Bad Decrypt message when using -pass pass:

2009-02-11 Thread Ger Hobbelt
Since from the looks of it your feeding enc an entire disc image, the first question of course is: have you tried your process with a smaller file, say a snippet of about 1K of data or even less? (I'm thinking about hidden boundary issues here, so best would be to check the process with something

Re: Bad Decrypt message when using -pass pass:

2009-02-11 Thread Nickfx
24 hours on and still stuck! Nickfx wrote: > > Hi, first post here and I wonder if anyone with a larger brain than me can > help? > > I'm in Windows XP Pro and using DD to image a disk and then pipe to > openssl to encrypt. I'm using the -pass pass:'anotherpassword' switch to > make decrypti