RE: Help with decrypting gpg file

2009-08-28 Thread John Betz
- From: David Shaw [mailto:ds...@jabberwocky.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 9:42 AM To: John Betz Cc: gnupg-users@gnupg.org Subject: Re: Help with decrypting gpg file On Aug 26, 2009, at 9:38 AM, John Betz wrote: David, The file is a PowerArchiver file (containing multiple text

RE: Help with decrypting gpg file

2009-08-28 Thread John Betz
: gnupg-users@gnupg.org Subject: Re: Help with decrypting gpg file On Aug 24, 2009, at 6:28 PM, John Betz wrote: I was hoping to get some help with decrypting an archived file. I am using the following command: echo passphrase| gpg --passphrase-fd 0 -o output.txt -d input.pgp The output file

RE: Help with decrypting gpg file

2009-08-28 Thread John Betz
@gnupg.org Subject: Re: Help with decrypting gpg file -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi John: I would just do this: gpg --decrypt input.pgp output.txt Let gpg prompt for your passphrase. That way, your passphrase is not part of bash history. If that doesn't work, let us know what

Re: Help with decrypting gpg file

2009-08-28 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:17, jb...@infimark.com said: By the way, I did use your recommended command string and got the same result. I suspect there is some kind of option that is required so that gpg knows that the output file should be created as an archive type file. No. gpg does not know

Re: Help with decrypting gpg file

2009-08-27 Thread David Shaw
On Aug 27, 2009, at 10:36 AM, John Betz wrote: I appreciate the offer David, but I don't have PowerArchiver so I can't create a sample input file. The file I am trying to decrypt is coming from another source so I would have to get them involved in order to create a sample archive file.

Re: Help with decrypting gpg file

2009-08-26 Thread David Shaw
On Aug 26, 2009, at 9:38 AM, John Betz wrote: David, The file is a PowerArchiver file (containing multiple text files) that was encrypted using PGP. I'm not sure if that file is legal according to the OpenPGP spec. It depends on how it was packed together. If you can encrypt a sample

Re: Help with decrypting gpg file

2009-08-25 Thread Erik Lotspeich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi John: I would just do this: gpg --decrypt input.pgp output.txt Let gpg prompt for your passphrase. That way, your passphrase is not part of bash history. If that doesn't work, let us know what error messages are you getting from GnuPG.

Help with decrypting gpg file

2009-08-25 Thread John Betz
I was hoping to get some help with decrypting an archived file. I am using the following command: echo passphrase| gpg --passphrase-fd 0 -o output.txt -d input.pgp The output file is created with no problem, however, there is garbage in the first record. If I rename the file (or

Re: Help with decrypting gpg file

2009-08-25 Thread Erik Lotspeich
-Original Message- From: Erik Lotspeich [mailto:e...@lotspeich.org] Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 4:58 PM To: John Betz Cc: gnupg-users@gnupg.org Subject: Re: Help with decrypting gpg file Hi John: I would just do this: gpg --decrypt input.pgp output.txt Let gpg prompt

Re: Help with decrypting gpg file

2009-08-25 Thread Scott Lambdin
Is input.pgp a test file that you created? There is an attack that involves inserting a small section of unencrypted garbage in the file. Sometimes gpg --list-packets input.pgp can give clues. On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 6:28 PM, John Betz jb...@infimark.com wrote: I was hoping to get some

Re: Help with decrypting gpg file

2009-08-25 Thread David Shaw
On Aug 24, 2009, at 6:28 PM, John Betz wrote: I was hoping to get some help with decrypting an archived file. I am using the following command: echo “passphrase”| gpg --passphrase-fd 0 -o output.txt -d input.pgp The output file is created with no problem, however, there is garbage in