gpg ---> pgp 2.6.3 error

[Zygo Blaxell]

Signed message created at Thu Nov 25 14:53:58 1999 by zblaxell@lain

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On Thu, 25 Nov 1999 19:31:29 +0100, Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> wrote:
>"T.H.E. Walrus" <thewalru@freenet.hut.fi> writes:
>> At 16.52 25/11/99 GMT, Zygo Blaxell wrote:
>> [gpg ---> pgp 2.6.3 error]
>> >Error: Decrypted plaintext is corrupted.
>>=20
>> this happens to me only when text to encrypt was piped to GPG.=20
>> (this problem is reported in GPG FAQ)

Hmmm...the FAQ (the automatic one) that I found on www.gnupg.org didn't
mention the piping part, only a long report of weird problems.  Is there
another one?

This _does_ work around the problem, though.

>> no problem when text is saved to file before encrypting.=20
>
>You will see it also when compression is in use.  So "-z 0" might
>help.

"-z 0" doesn't seem to make a difference, i.e. pgp 2.6 can decrypt text
encrypted by gpg whether or not '-z 0' is used on the gpg command line.


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GPG @ Home fingerprint: 2B32 546D 21A5 0DB2 20C8  AF10 1D4A 610E 6972 2DEE
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