Decryption problem

[J Robert Ray]

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Frank Yip wrote:
| I have a serious problem now. I have an application which will first
encrypt
| a file with specific recipient and upload to a ftp server in first
day. Then
| in second day, the same program will run and it will download the
encrypted
| file (first day uploaded file) if certain situation is not happend.
Then it
| will try to decrypt the file. In the past it works fine because the
program
| use DES. The problem now is as the file is encrypted with specific
| recipient. I can't decrypt the encrypted file which is encrypted by me in
| the second day as I am not the recipient. Is there any way to make
this work
| by allowing me (the sender) to decrypt the file which is encrypted by me??

You have at least two options:

1) Include yourself in the list of recipients that you encrypt the file to.

2) Use symmetric encryption:

~       -c, --symmetric
~                 Encrypt with symmetric cipher only.  This command asks
for a passphrase.

- - Robert

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http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBB929E54
Key fingerprint = BEA9 490C D2B9 AD83 E88B  3148 3136 34E4 BB92 9E54

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