Re: Invalid packet error message
On Mon, 7 Jan 2013 22:14, bd9...@att.com said: gpg: [don't know]: invalid packet (ctb=70) Does anyone know what this means? I tried several Google searches but Your input data is corrupted. OpenPGP messages are constructed from several packets, each packets starts with a tag byte commonly called CTB indicating the type of the packet and how the length of the packet is specified. 0x70 is not a valid CTB, thus you see this message. A common cause for a corrupted message is the use of a non binary clean channel (e.g. using ftp without switching to binary mode). Mail software may also corrupt the message. Ask the sender of the message to encapsulate it in a ZIP or tar file and than unzip it before decrypting. If this works or you can't unzip it your transport channel is non 8 bit clean. A quick work around would be the use of the --armor or -a option. Salam-Shalom, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz. ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
RE: Invalid packet error message
Thanks for the excellent explanation! Before I ask for the file to be retransmitted, one quick question (perhaps obvious but bear with me): If I ask the sender to use the -a option, the resulting file will be ASCII and as such, I would download it as text from our FTP server, not binary, correct? It just occurred to me that the problem was on the sender's side; perhaps they uploaded the file as text when they placed it on our FTP server (we use an intermediary FTP site). At any rate, I think I understand now. Thanks very much! Bob -Original Message- From: Werner Koch [mailto:w...@gnupg.org] Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2013 12:18 AM To: DUELL, BOB Cc: gnupg-users@gnupg.org Subject: Re: Invalid packet error message On Mon, 7 Jan 2013 22:14, bd9...@att.com said: gpg: [don't know]: invalid packet (ctb=70) Does anyone know what this means? I tried several Google searches but Your input data is corrupted. OpenPGP messages are constructed from several packets, each packets starts with a tag byte commonly called CTB indicating the type of the packet and how the length of the packet is specified. 0x70 is not a valid CTB, thus you see this message. A common cause for a corrupted message is the use of a non binary clean channel (e.g. using ftp without switching to binary mode). Mail software may also corrupt the message. Ask the sender of the message to encapsulate it in a ZIP or tar file and than unzip it before decrypting. If this works or you can't unzip it your transport channel is non 8 bit clean. A quick work around would be the use of the --armor or -a option. Salam-Shalom, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz. ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
Invalid packet error message
Hi, When trying to decrypt a file, we are getting this error message: gpg: [don't know]: invalid packet (ctb=70) Does anyone know what this means? I tried several Google searches but can't find anything relevant. FWIW, here is the command (all one line): gpg --homedir /opt/app/apps/dbmprod/gpg --local-user mykeyID --output imdm_extract_20121221.dat --decrypt imdm_extract_20121221.dat.pgp Thanks, Bob ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
RE: Invalid packet error message
-Original Message- From: bre...@srv1.adept-hosting.net [mailto:bre...@srv1.adept-hosting.net] On Behalf Of Anonymous Sent: Monday, January 07, 2013 3:14 PM To: DUELL, BOB Subject: Re: Invalid packet error message gpg --homedir /opt/app/apps/dbmprod/gpg --local-user mykeyID --imdm_extract_20121221.dat --decrypt imdm_extract_20121221.dat.pgp make --output imdm_extract_20121221.dat last in command line [reply to list] Unfortunately, that's not it; I get: gpg: WARNING: unsafe permissions on homedir `/opt/app/apps/dbmprod/gpg' gpg: WARNING: using insecure memory! gpg: please see http://www.gnupg.org/faq.html for more information usage: gpg [options] --decrypt [filename] Also, here is my setup: bd9439@dspsas01 $ gpg --homedir /opt/app/apps/dbmprod/gpg --version gpg: WARNING: unsafe permissions on homedir `/opt/app/apps/dbmprod/gpg' gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.11 Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Home: /opt/app/apps/dbmprod/gpg Supported algorithms: Pubkey: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA Cipher: 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH, CAMELLIA128, CAMELLIA192, CAMELLIA256 Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, SHA224 Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2 And yes, I know it's an old version. I just have not had a reason to upgrade; what we have has worked fine (until now). And yes, the unsafe permissions is understood. I have this installed in a public directory so all users can decrypt files (we have a common key to receive files from outside sources). This is the first time I've seen such a message. We will ask the outside sourced to re-encrypt and re-send the file (perhaps it was corrupted during FTP), but I'm curious what this error message means. Thanks! Bob ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
