Compiling and using v1.2.1 on Solaris.

David Shaw dshaw@jabberwocky.com
Sun Nov 17 23:52:01 2002


On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 12:28:35PM -0000, GOOCH Jeremy wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I was trying to decrypt a file on NT using GnuPG v1.2.1 and was receiving
> the error "packet too short".  I realised that this was because it was
> encrypted on a Solaris machine running v1.0.6 (as per
> http://www.gnupg.org/faq.html#q6.19).

The FAQ item refers to keyrings from 1.0.7 used on 1.0.6.  Your
problem seems to be something else.  "packet too short" generally
means the original encrypted file was truncated or otherwise
incomplete.

David

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