Gnupg: Can't handle text lines longer than 19995 characters

Keith ac7xc-lnx@earthlink.net
Tue Aug 26 16:57:01 2003


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On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Naik, Sachin (Global Repo Systems) wrote:

>
> I am getting this error while encrypting. Any ideas as to what can be the solution to it.
>
> [GNUPG:] BEGIN_ENCRYPTION 2 7
> gpg: can't handle text lines longer than 19995 characters
> [GNUPG:] END_ENCRYPTION
>

You have a single line that is 19995 characters long, you need to break it
up with carriage returns or zip the file up, encrypt/sign and send it as a
binary.

zip filename.zip filename.txt
gpg -es filename.zip




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