Differing File Sizes & GPG Symmetric Decryption Failure After ~4G

[David Shaw]

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On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 09:55:25AM -0400, Packard, Matthew wrote:

>    Thanks for info - sad to see that I can't recover the file, but, oh 
> well. Is there another way to handle a large (>4G) file in the future 
> within GPG? Or should I just split each large file into ~3.5G files and 
> then GPG them?

No.  The problem you saw was fixed in 1.2.2.  Upgrade to GnuPG 1.2.2
and (if your OS has large file support) you don't have to worry about
any of the file size issues anymore.

David
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