decryption question

[Beith, Linda]

Thanks Peter. I'll try this.
Linda

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Gutmann [mailto:pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 5:56 PM
To: gnupg-devel at gnupg.org; Beith, Linda
Subject: Re: decryption question


"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.