Cannot encrypt/decrypt zip-Files correctly (Andreas)

[Leigh S. Jones, KR6X]

Don't be deceived by incorrect answers.

ASCII-armored outputs from encrypted binary files are perfectly OK.  They
contain
the full 8 bit binary content of the input file converted to the text output
format.  The
method for doing this was long established before PGP/gpg were created.  No
data is lost or corrupted by stripping the high order bit from ASCII-armored
gpg
outputs; tarfiles may be damaged by transport in ASCII mode with ftp, but
ASCII-
armored gpg outputs are ftp safe, even if the original data is binary.  Your
problem
lies elsewhere.

----- Original Message -----
From: <akorthaus@web.de>
To: <gnupg-users@gnupg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 09:18
Subject: Cannot encrypt/decrypt zip-Files correctly


> Hi!
> I´ve 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´ve 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!
>
> 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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