Cannot encrypt/decrypt zip-Files correctly (Andreas)

[Peter T. Abplanalp]

don't you have to specify ascii armoring on the command line tho?
andreas doesn't do that in his command line.  or is gpg smart enough
to ascii armor a .txt output file based on extension?

On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 10:50:05AM -0700, Leigh S. Jones, KR6X wrote:
> Don't be deceived by incorrect answers.
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> 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 out=
put
> 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-armo=
red
> 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.  Y=
our
> problem
> lies elsewhere.
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> ----- 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
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> > Hi!
> > I?ve got a strange problem.  I try to encrypt a gz-file on my Linux Ser=
ver
> > 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!=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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Peter Abplanalp

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