Trouble decrypting AES256 symmetric encrypted file

Alphax alphasigmax at gmail.com
Mon Sep 19 15:36:52 CEST 2005


JIH, DOUG Y. wrote:
> I got the following messages when I tried to decrypt a file.gpg with
> the size 4,920,412,393 bytes.
> 
> gpg: AES256 encrypted data
> gpg: encrypted with 1 passphrase
> gpg: [don't know]: invalid packet (ctb=7e)
> gpg: [don't know]: invalid packet (ctb=32)
> gpg: WARNING: encrypted message has been manipulated!
> gpg: [don't know]: invalid packet (ctb=2c)
> 
> The file was produced by encrypting with
> 
> gpg -c --cipher aes256 file
> 
> When the error messages occured, the output file has a size of
> 614,055,611 bytes.
> 
> Can anyone please help!
> 
> Using gpg version 1.4.2, official Windows version
> 

I have a feeling Windows has problems with files this large, esp. on NTFS.

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