A GnuPG oddity (decompression)

Eugene Smiley eugene@esmiley.net
Mon Apr 7 18:27:01 2003


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gnupg-users-admin@gnupg.org <mailto:gnupg-users-admin@gnupg.org>
wrote:=20
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> Here is a weird thing that I found when comparing PGP and GnuPG.
> You'll find below some conventionally encrypted data (the=20
> passphrase to decrypt is "test").
>
> It is decrypted OK by PGP and GnuPG. BUT GnuPG generates garbled=20
> data. (I've tried GnuPG v1.0.6 and v1.2.1). This has something=20
> to do with decompression, because I get no problem with non-
> compressed data.
>
> Thanks for any suggestion.

I get it to work fine with both PGP and GPGshell. Nothing comes out=20
garbled, but I do get this from GPGshell:

gpg: CAST5 encrypted data
gpg: WARNING: message was not integrity protected

Time: 4/7/2003 12:18:33 PM (4:18:33 PM UTC)


Here's what I am using:
OS		: Win XP
PGP		: 8.0.2
GPG		: 1.2.1
GPGshell	: 2.65



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Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (MingW32) - GPGrelay v0.92

iD8DBQA+kacc6QPtAqft/S8RAiI+AJ9g+CpuZZNyyA3cexerdHw2EEyo+gCg8qq1
5IyPPkH9qhWWLWIwIyDN2bk=
=FJxR
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