decrypt problem

[Mica Mijatovic]

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    Was Sat, 21 Oct 2006, at 13:54:52 +0200,
    when itsec.info wrote:

> I have encrypted a large file (280MB) with gpg v1.4.2 on suse 10.0.
> By decrypting the file I get the following error message:

> gpg: Problem reading source (10429120 bytes remaining)
> gpg: handle plaintext failed: Dateilesefehler
> gpg: Warnung: Verschlüsselte Botschaft ist manipuliert worden!

> The last line is in German, basically it says that the text may be manipulated
> by a 3rd party.

> Can I handle such huge files with gpg at all?
> If so, what is the cause of this error because I am quite sure that the file
> had not been manipulated in the meantime.

I still don't dare to encrypt larger files with GnuPG (they could make
a GPGDisk for such purposes, that would be ingenious move!).

An other reason is that in the process of encryption the date/time of
the file is changed (grrr...), exceptionally inconvenient for backups
(or I simply don't know the magic trick/dance).

Hence I rather use the zip with a longish nice password for such
purposes, and am besides hoping that will catch some time to see how
_TrueCrypt for Linux_ would do this work, using its encrypted
container/"volume".

Anyone here having any experience with this version of True Crypt yet?
Any impressions?

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checking whether the reason is present and sane... maybe
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