Partial file download issue - GPG

David Shaw dshaw at jabberwocky.com
Thu Aug 9 22:52:56 CEST 2007


On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 01:56:29PM -0500, Eric Robinson wrote:
> Hello Group,
> I need some help in determining what this problem is.  I have a customer
> that is trying to decrypt a file but it is not 'getting' the complete
> file.  Message is below:
> 
> # gpg --decrypt SMAL070809.txt > foo.txt
> gpg: encrypted with 1024-bit ELG-E key, ID 957F2C4C, created 2005-03-14
>       "VisionaryServices (VSi ProdKey) <dsafris at visionary.com>"
> gpg: fatal: zlib inflate problem: invalid stored block lengths secmem
> usage: 2080/2368 bytes in 4/7 blocks of pool 3424/32768
> [root at deepthought remit]# gpg --decrypt -o bar.txt SMAL070809.txt
> gpg: encrypted with 1024-bit ELG-E key, ID 957F2C4C, created 2005-03-14
>       "VisionaryServices (VSi ProdKey) <dsafris at visionary.com>"
> gpg: fatal: zlib inflate problem: invalid stored block lengths secmem
> usage: 2080/2368 bytes in 4/7 blocks of pool 3424/32768
> [root at deepthought remit]# diff foo.txt bar.txt [root at deepthought remit]#
> wc -l foo.txt
> 1815 foo.txt

The file is corrupt, so cannot be processed.  How was the file
created?  Try comparing the original to what the customer has.

David



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