bug encrypting to RSA keys?

J. Michael Ashley jashley at tc0-eth1.ind.bluemarble.net
Sat Sep 18 06:36:17 CEST 1999


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I am experimenting encrypting a document to a public key generated using
PGP 2.6.2.  This command seems to work:

     gpg --no-options --load-extension ~/.gnupg/idea.o --load-extension
     ~/.gnupg/rsa.o --rfc1991 --cipher-algo idea --compress-algo 1 --encrypt 
     --armor --recipient elmer test

where test is 'this is a test message.' with a single newline.

While the above works, if I do the following:

     gpg --no-options --load-extension ~/.gnupg/idea.o --load-extension
     ~/.gnupg/rsa.o --rfc1991 --cipher-algo idea --compress-algo 1 --encrypt
     --armor --recipient elmer < test

I will get an error from pgp 2.6.2 when trying to decrypt the result.
The error is 'Error: Decrypted plaintext is corrupted.' which suggests
a decompression error.

Mike

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