Truncated file in GPG?
Charles
test524 at comcast.net
Tue Jun 22 14:12:56 CEST 2004
Hello all,
I'm running GPG version 1.0.6 on Debian stable for the first time.
Kernel version is 2.4.18. (I sent this to the Debian mailing list, but
didn't get a response--I'm not sure it is Debian specific.) I'm trying
to perform a relatively simple task: encrypt a big MS Outlook mail
archive file so that only I can decrypt it. I created a key for myself,
and encrypted the file with
gpg -e -r Charles mail.pst
mail.pst is a 116MB file.
The resulting mail.pst.gpg is 80MB. Something is clearly wrong. Though
I'm aware GPG has compression, .PST is already a pretty compressed
format. Doing gpg -d to decrypt gave me back a file that was about 81MB
-- far smaller than the original.
charles at compute1:/files/Work$ gpg -e -r Charles mail.pst
charles at compute1:/files/Work$ ls -l
total 200208
-r-------- 1 charles charles 122470400 May 2 22:11 mail.pst
-rw-r--r-- 1 charles charles 82329455 Jun 18 21:41 mail.pst.gpg
What's going on here? I'm running on a 667MHz P3 with 128MB RAM.
Any help most appreciated.
Thanks,
Charles.
More information about the Gnupg-users
mailing list