Re: GPG Problem - invalid radix64 character

2011-05-30 Thread Vlad SATtva Miller
Werner Koch: On Fri, 27 May 2011 10:48, jer...@jeromebaum.com said: There is still a compression step by default though, right? I know gzip has Right. I forgot to mention that. Unless gpg figures that the data is already compressed, it will be compressed before encryption. Or unless

Re: GPG Problem - invalid radix64 character

2011-05-29 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 27 May 2011 10:48, jer...@jeromebaum.com said: There is still a compression step by default though, right? I know gzip has Right. I forgot to mention that. Unless gpg figures that the data is already compressed, it will be compressed before encryption. Salam-Shalom, Werner --

Re: GPG Problem - invalid radix64 character

2011-05-27 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 27 May 2011 00:04, gro...@caseyljones.net said: volume. The advantage of those is that a single bit error is likely to only affect one file. If you archive the files before transferring FWIW, it is the same as with OpenPGP. The used CFB mode re-syncs after soon after the bad block.

Re: GPG Problem - invalid radix64 character

2011-05-27 Thread Jerome Baum
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 10:09, Werner Koch w...@gnupg.org wrote: On Fri, 27 May 2011 00:04, gro...@caseyljones.net said: volume. The advantage of those is that a single bit error is likely to only affect one file. If you archive the files before transferring FWIW, it is the same as with

Re: GPG Problem - invalid radix64 character

2011-05-26 Thread Casey Jones
In the future, instead of GPG or OpenSSL I would suggest an encrypted filesystem such as an encrypted folder or partition or Truecrypt volume. The advantage of those is that a single bit error is likely to only affect one file. If you archive the files before transferring them to your

Re: GPG Problem - invalid radix64 character

2011-05-19 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
On 17 maj 2011, at 14.52, Jerome Baum wrote: On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 14:16, Turbo Fredriksson tu...@bayour.com wrote: But the last part didn't end up at the 64 char limit the other lines have. Instead, the last char on that line is at position 15. Would that be a problem? It doesn't sound

Re: GPG Problem - invalid radix64 character

2011-05-19 Thread Jerome Baum
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 11:46, Turbo Fredriksson tu...@bayour.com wrote: On 17 maj 2011, at 14.52, Jerome Baum wrote: On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 14:16, Turbo Fredriksson tu...@bayour.com wrote: But the last part didn't end up at the 64 char limit the other lines have. Instead, the last char

Re: GPG Problem - invalid radix64 character

2011-05-17 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 17 May 2011 00:35, jer...@jeromebaum.com said: were made for different purposes and I think you're stretching GPG very far if you want to encrypt big streams of data. That's more something OpenSSL As a Unix tool GPG is designed to work on arbitrary data lengths. The problem is mereley

Re: GPG Problem - invalid radix64 character

2011-05-17 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
On 16 maj 2011, at 18.35, Jerome Baum wrote: So, start at the beginning of scrapped data (with a copy, of course), fill in As until you reach the 76 (or 80) limit, fill in a line break, continue with As, repeat until nothing left. That was a lot more difficult than it sounded!! :) I tried

Re: GPG Problem - invalid radix64 character

2011-05-17 Thread Jerome Baum
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 14:22, Turbo Fredriksson tu...@bayour.com wrote: On 16 maj 2011, at 21.11, Jerome Baum wrote: On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 19:08, Turbo Fredriksson tu...@bayour.com wrote: I've locked at some encrypted FS's, but none of them where secure enough. In what sense? Can you

Re: GPG Problem - invalid radix64 character

2011-05-17 Thread Jerome Baum
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 14:16, Turbo Fredriksson tu...@bayour.com wrote: But the last part didn't end up at the 64 char limit the other lines have. Instead, the last char on that line is at position 15. Would that be a problem? It doesn't sound good but just go ahead and try. How long does a

Re: GPG Problem - invalid radix64 character

2011-05-16 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
I now managed to find the problematic line(s). archive1.0280 5470206000 d0 00 ad de d0 00 ad de d0 00 ad de d0 00 ad de 5470207000 d1 00 ad de d1 00 ad de d1 00 ad de d1 00 ad de These are the only lines I've found so far... Now, what does this mean?! :) -- Build a man a fire, and he will be

Re: GPG Problem - invalid radix64 character

2011-05-16 Thread Jerome Baum
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 14:04, Turbo Fredriksson tu...@bayour.com wrote: I now managed to find the problematic line(s). archive1.0280 5470206000 d0 00 ad de d0 00 ad de d0 00 ad de d0 00 ad de 5470207000 d1 00 ad de d1 00 ad de d1 00 ad de d1 00 ad de These are the only lines I've found so

Re: GPG Problem - invalid radix64 character

2011-05-16 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
On 16 maj 2011, at 15.46, Jerome Baum wrote:On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 14:04, Turbo Fredriksson tu...@bayour.com wrote: I now managed to find the problematic line(s).archive1.02805470206000 d0 00 ad de d0 00 ad de d0 00 ad de d0 00 ad de 5470207000 d1 00 ad de d1 00 ad de d1 00 ad de d1 00 ad deThese

Re: GPG Problem - invalid radix64 character

2011-05-16 Thread Jerome Baum
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 17:32, Turbo Fredriksson tu...@bayour.com wrote: Now, I tried to just remove the binary chars, but that ended up with a line which is shorter than the others which I doubt will work (it would take me almost a day to find out - slow USB1 disks), so any idea on how to

Re: GPG Problem - invalid radix64 character

2011-05-16 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Monday 16 May 2011 at 1:04:33 PM, in mid:5a6acd14-1b72-439f-adb4-c28cd6751...@bayour.com, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: Build a man a fire, and he will be warm for the night. Set a man on fire and he will be warm for the rest of his life.

Re: GPG Problem - invalid radix64 character

2011-05-16 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 16-05-2011 12:35, Jerome Baum escribió: ... In the worst case, you may be looking at loosing everything from the corruption point onwards, assuming some kind of stream compression. This is IIRC the default for GnuPG when it encrypts. Otherwise

Fwd: GPG Problem - invalid radix64 character

2011-05-13 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
*bump* Begin forwarded message: I needed to move lots of data from one site to another across europe. I got a huge disk and archived all data onto that using something like (simplified): find | cpio -o | gpg -e | split - /disk/archive. To extract the data again, it's just as simple:

Re: GPG Problem - invalid radix64 character

2011-05-13 Thread Jerome Baum
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 11:55, Turbo Fredriksson tu...@bayour.com wrote: *bump* Begin forwarded message: But this last one gave me a problem when trying to unpack it: gpg: invalid radix64 character D0 skipped gpg: invalid radix64 character 00 skipped gpg: invalid

Re: GPG Problem - invalid radix64 character

2011-05-13 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
On 13 maj 2011, at 12.08, Jerome Baum wrote: 1. What character is D0, 00, AD and DE? What can I look for (to try to diagnose the problem/file) You can look for D0, 00, AD and DE. Doh! I assumed that these where some code characters (meaning it's something else in the actuall file).

Re: GPG Problem - invalid radix64 character

2011-05-13 Thread Jerome Baum
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 12:42, Turbo Fredriksson tu...@bayour.com wrote: On 13 maj 2011, at 12.08, Jerome Baum wrote: 1. What character is D0, 00, AD and DE? What can I look for (to try to diagnose the problem/file) You can look for D0, 00, AD and DE. Doh! I assumed that these where