On Jan 19, 2011, at 1:20 PM, Werner Koch wrote: > On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 17:46, ds...@jabberwocky.com said: > >> Not really (or at least, not within GnuPG). The thing is, it doesn't >> really matter in practice. OpenPGP has its own corruption detection >> called a MDC, that applies even if part of the armor (the "END PGP >> MESSAGE") is missing. A truncated message won't decrypt. > > In addition all armored PGP messages use CRC for the armor. GPG > complains about a missing or invalid CRC (unless option > --ignore-crc-error) is used. In such a case the return code will always > be nonzero.
If I remember correctly, GPG only complains for invalid CRC. A missing CRC is legal, as the CRC is a MAY. David _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
