decryption question

Peter Gutmann pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz
Wed Apr 17 23:56:16 CEST 2013


"Beith, Linda" <lbeith at rwu.edu> writes:

>The assumption is  that something went wrong in the original encryption of
>the file. Do you have idea if it is possible to extract data in this
>situation?

A first step would be to run pgpdump (
http://www.mew.org/~kazu/proj/pgpdump/en/ or
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/pgpdump) on it to see what it is,
i.e whether it's a valid PGP file or not, and what the format is.

Peter.



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