Cannot encrypt/decrypt zip-Files correctly

[Steve Butler]

Remember that a compressed file is a binary file.  You can't treat it as =
a
text file.  Now, if this compressed file is also an output from tar (a
compressed tarball) it will be even more unreadable by a human.

1.  Be sure you used binary mode to do the download (using FTP?)

2.  When you decrypt a binary file it will still be binary -- just not
encrypted.  So, that gzip file on your clipboard will still be a gzip =
file
(which you will have to decompress).

3.  If it was a compressed tarball you will have to uncompress it and =
detar
it (winzip might handle some forms of a tarball).

Have fun.

--Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: akorthaus@web.de [mailto:akorthaus@web.de]
Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 9:18 AM
To: gnupg-users@gnupg.org
Subject: Cannot encrypt/decrypt zip-Files correctly


Hi!
I=B4ve got a strange problem.  I try to encrypt a gz-file on my Linux =
Server
using GPG, and download the encrypted file, and decrypt it with WinPT on =
my
PC(Win2K).
That`s what I=B4ve tried in SHELL:

(17:23:59) [webseite] gpg -o out.txt -a -e --default-recipient akorthaus
mysql.zip

in the same way I encrypted html-files which I could decrypt without any
problems.

Now I open out.txt and copied the code to my clipboard. After that I =
opened
WinPT and decrypted the code from clipboard, that worked correctly, but =
the
result was:

Zip!=1A=07

As I allready said - the same way worked with html Files!

What could be the problem, or how can I decrypt complete files using =
WinPT?

cu
Andreas



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