Encrypt/decript large files

[David Shaw]

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On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 09:45:39AM -0700, Eric Harlow wrote:
> 
> Sorry for the delay in getting back.  It takes a while
> to run the tests and there's so many other things
> going on.
> 
> Using -z0 to encrypt a large file results in similar
> errors - bad packets, message manipulated, etc.  The
> largest file I got to work was a bit over 2.3 gig. 
> Somewhere over that, it fails.  This error occurred on
> a file of 4,799,488,000.  
> 
> I have not tried this on Linux due to lack of free
> space.  Would it be helpful to see if it occurs on
> Linux too? 

That would be helpful, yes.  I expect it will work on Linux.

It is not clear whether this is a problem encoding or decoding.  Can
you try this on NT:
  type (thefile) | gpg -o output.gpg --encrypt 

If that doesn't work:

  type (thefile) | gpg -o output.gpg -z0 --encrypt

That is, try piping the data in rather then giving the filename on the
command line.  Then, try decrypting the output.gpg file via both:

  gpg -o result output.gpg
and
  type output.gpg | gpg -o result

David
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