invalid armor header and PGP 8

David Shaw dshaw at jabberwocky.com
Thu Nov 20 17:16:43 CET 2003


On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 01:49:45PM -0800, Chris Masterton wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> This maybe a newbie question but I've searched the faq and mailing
> list and I can't find an answer...
> 
> When trying to decrypt a PGP 8 message I get the follow error from GPG
> 1.23.1:
> 
> gpg: invalid armor header: www.pgp.com
> 
> The header looks like this:
> 
> -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
> Version: PGP 8.0.3 - not licensed for commercial use:
> www.pgp.com

This is a corrupt file.  PGP generates all that on one line.  It looks
like something tried to word-wrap it...

David



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