Can't decrypt .gpg file

[Jack McKinney]

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Big Brother tells me that Florian Weimer wrote:
> "Jack McKinney" <jackmc-gnupg-users@lorentz.com> writes:
>=20
> > > Could you send us the first five hundred bytes of the file in
> > > question?
> >=20
> >     Got it.  I created an archive using the attached gpgtar script (whi=
ch
> > has worked successfully often) with passphrase "test".
>=20
> Okay, there are 4 superfluous new line characters on it (hmm, I get
> only two here).  Otherwise, it appears to be fine.  Most likely, these
> are the result of the "echo" lines in your gpgtar script.  I'd suggest
> to redirect output to stderr for them as well, and they should vanish.
> It's possible that the "read" calls write to stdout as well, resulting
> in more newline characters.

    Duh!  I gave up on debugging the fact that my two pass phrase
requests apepared on the same line a long time ago.  Serious brain
lapse in not realizing that they are going to stdout (esp. considering
that I had the foresight to print the prompts to stdout!)
    Thanks VERY much for the help.  I guess I'll need to write a filter
to skip the first two bytes before passing these files to gpg!
    BTW... any idea why this sometimes works and sometimes doesn't?

> I'm not sure if shell (even zsh) is the right programming language for
> this kind of task. :-/

    How so?  Initially I ran this from the command line, and put it into
a shell script mainly so that I would not have to rethink the syntax and
retype it each time.  The only issue I can see is the storing of the
pass phrase in a shell variable.  Since this is a single user machine that
is not connected to the network, and I can wipe the swap partition fairly
easily (not that it is used much), that issue is pretty non-existant.

   Again, many thanks for solving this for me.

--
"I'll never be cruel to electrons              Jack McKinney
  in a particle accelerator again."            jackmc@lorentz.com
   -the Fourth Dr. Who, "The Pirate Planet"    http://www.lorentz.com
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