File size limit in GnuPG???

[Jason Martin]

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A couple of things to think about:

How much physical ram do you have? Perhaps GPG is trying to do the whole
process in 'locked' memory.  Or, how much disk space do you have on /tmp?
If not the above, GPG might be creating temp file somewhere and running
out of physical space.  Just a couple of guesses..

- -Jason Martin

 On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Jack McKinney wrote:

>      Alright, here's a good one for you.  As I mentioned in an earlier
> email, I wrote a shell script wrapper to tar up some files and then
> encrypt the tarball.  I did this earlier on a 650M directory, and the
> resulting 650M file was neither gpg or tar.  So, I posted.  Then, I
> grabbed a 250M directory and used the EXACT SAME SCRIPTS.  This time,
> the resulting file works!
>      Is there a file size limit in GnuPG?????
>      I am running Debian 2.2/Linux 2.2.17/GnuPG 1.04.
>      My scripts appear below.
>      To be specific, I went to a directory that had a bunch of .tar.gz
> files of software I had downloaded and typed:
> 
> $ gpgtar * > ../archives.tar.gpg
> 
>      I then did:
> 
> $ cd .. ; mkdir archives2 ; cd archives2 ; gpguntar ../archives.tar.gpg
> 
>      The files decrypted and unpacked perfectly.  When I had done the
> exact same thing earlier with the 650M directory, the resulting file
> fails:
> 
> $ gpg earlier.tar.gpg
> gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.
> $ gpg --list-packets earlier.tar.gpg
> gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.
> 
> --
> "What we observe is not nature itself, but nature  Jack McKinney
>  exposed to our method of questioning.             http://www.lorentz.com
>          -Werner Karl Heisenberg                   jackmc@lorentz.com
>                                                    1024D/D68F2C07 4096g/38AEF076
> 
> 
> gpgtar:
> #!/bin/zsh
> echo -n 'Passphrase: ' >&2
> stty -echo
> read p1
> stty echo
> echo
> echo -n 'Repeat: ' >&2
> stty -echo
> read p2
> stty echo
> echo
> 
> if [[ $p1 != $p2 ]]
> then
>   echo Mismatch >&2
>   exit 1
> fi
> tar -cvf - $* | gpg --passphrase-fd 3 -c 3<<< $p1
> 
> 
> 
> gpguntar:
> #!/bin/zsh
> echo -n 'Passphrase: ' >&2
> stty -echo
> read p1
> echo
> stty echo
> gpg --passphrase-fd 3 < $1 3<<< $p1 | tar -xvf -
> 

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