A GnuPG oddity (decompression)

David Shaw dshaw@jabberwocky.com
Tue Apr 8 18:33:02 2003


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On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 05:35:59PM +0200, Falissard wrote:
> Here is a weird thing that I found when comparing
> PGP and GnuPG.
> You'll find below some conventionally encrypted data
> (the passphrase to decrypt is "test").
> It is decrypted OK by PGP and GnuPG.
> BUT GnuPG generates garbled data.
> (I've tried GnuPG v1.0.6 and v1.2.1).
> This has something to do with decompression,
> because I get no problem with non-compressed data.
> Thanks for any suggestion.

I believe this is has to do with a similar problem seen with CryptoEx
compresssed messages.  It is fixed in 1.2.2.

David
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