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

[Packard, Matthew]

David / Werner / Everyone,

    Thanks for the info - I'll stick with the newly installed 1.2.2.

Thanks again,
Matthew Packard
matthew.packard@umassmed.edu

David Shaw wrote:

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