Re: The problem of decrypting big files encrypted with openssl smime

2011-07-10 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011, Dr. Stephen Henson wrote: > On Mon, Jul 11, 2011, Michael Tabolsky wrote: > > > On Monday 11 July 2011 01:18:22 Dr. Stephen Henson wrote: > > > Is that big file base64 encoded? If so then the decode process can > > > increase > > > the memory considerably. I'd suggest you b

Re: The problem of decrypting big files encrypted with openssl smime

2011-07-10 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011, Michael Tabolsky wrote: > On Monday 11 July 2011 01:18:22 Dr. Stephen Henson wrote: > > Is that big file base64 encoded? If so then the decode process can increase > > the memory considerably. I'd suggest you base64 decode it and then try the > > -inform DER option to the smi

Re: The problem of decrypting big files encrypted with openssl smime

2011-07-10 Thread Michael Tabolsky
On Monday 11 July 2011 01:18:22 Dr. Stephen Henson wrote: > Is that big file base64 encoded? If so then the decode process can increase > the memory considerably. I'd suggest you base64 decode it and then try the > -inform DER option to the smime -decrypt command. It will still need the > lot in me

Re: The problem of decrypting big files encrypted with openssl smime

2011-07-10 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011, Michael Tabolsky wrote: > Dear OpenSSL Community, > > I am struggling for four days trying to workaround the problem... > > I have a big smime encrypted file, approximately 5GB which was encrypted > using openssl: > > openssl smime -encrypt -stream -des3 -binary cert.crt

The problem of decrypting big files encrypted with openssl smime

2011-07-10 Thread Michael Tabolsky
Dear OpenSSL Community, I am struggling for four days trying to workaround the problem... I have a big smime encrypted file, approximately 5GB which was encrypted using openssl: openssl smime -encrypt -stream -des3 -binary cert.crt -in data.file -out data.file.enc The file is a bziped backup