-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:56:48 -0700 (PDT), James Board wrote: >> Have you tried decrypting the file with either PGP or >> GnuPG? Also, >> where in the file is the corruption? > > The file is corrupted (a 4096-byte page full of zereos), at seemingly random places, but not near the front of the file. > > The file was encrypted with PGP 5.0. I tried to decrypt with PGP 5.0 and that didn't work. [...]
I haven't used PGP 5.0, but does it give an error message when you try to decrypt the file. If it does, please let us know what the error message is. It could be helpful. > [...] Should I try with gpg? Does gpg behave gracefully if the input file is corrupted? [...] It wouldn't hurt to try. As for the second question, I don't know. I don't have the knowledge or experience with these situations to answer that. > [...] I don't normally use gpg: can I decrypt a file with gpg that was originally encrypted with pgp 5.0? To the best of my knowledge, GnuPG can work with old versions of PGP going back to PGP 2.x. So I think that it may. If you do use GnuPG to decrypt your file, let us know whether it works or not. And if it doesn't work, post the error message so that we can further diagnose. - -Paul - -- You wouldn't send all of your mail written on the back of postcards would you? Then why would you send your e-mail the same way? <http://www.philzimmermann.com/EN/essays/WhyIWrotePGP.html> +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | PGP Key ID: 0x3DB6D884 | | PGP Fingerprint: EBA7 88B3 6D98 2D4A E045 A9F7 C7C6 6ADF 3DB6 D884 | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQGcBAEBCAAGBQJLqrLVAAoJEJhBiuhgbQLInbEL/iU8azdfLK6tH2/CiNDjBtq9 PCzDDf7vFCZqChkNeNJJLJ1qPmhpjDPnakZLCHmhTiPhlA/AKlHOP2H6HhgReNmR Lr7rLP0OYRcUj5VgWmFod7624qdwrqK05zS70may15fCRpi7z/VssGNNbf9FMVyT GsPZm2KFUC++ZHCjFYo6qKVKltNuMHiH7SuNzACuOOSkASkdoBR+uQoUcUvL3ngF XZuzgtfi4m13r+q8IfKBqh/sMI61qQs7f6Ky+Ji4PHom4mSDoVBT9cw5lbt1fUeZ Z3w+W9HdxmFsoh+qH/qRvyut9szyPvVdZvB2+K4/Mcd8+vbq3Hk/CPwfI3UOjtKj voxpAdgz6qageCSRGvGAg0vFbt/0CoJdAFanxKa7LJP8hounFY/uy87x9R5ktw7c +uVRDdGatPC4Jv5fxKI5xkf1vuWv4BFtuLaExt6kelHnwwH4k+gmLsWTJfgNvHkx 6DhRIjXA/HegJOvDIyq6ZJas0XQHL/0MvNccT+xSPg== =rjHb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users