Help with decrypting gpg file

[John Betz]

Erik,

Thanks a lot for your response. I can successfully decrypt files with one
exception - those that are zipped or archived. In this case the source file
was created using Power Archiver. When the file is decrypted, there is
garbage in the first record. It's as if gpg doesn't recognize that the input
file is an archive file. (When I use PGP, the output file is automatically
created as a WinZip compatible archive file when it is decrypted.)

By the way, I did use your recommended command string and got the same
result. I suspect there is some kind of option that is required so that gpg
knows that the output file should be created as an archive type file.

Thank you very much for your help.

John
(office) 703-490-3227
(cell) 703-304-2536

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From: Erik Lotspeich [mailto:erik at lotspeich.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 4:58 PM
To: John Betz
Cc: gnupg-users at gnupg.org
Subject: Re: Help with decrypting gpg file

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Hi John:

I would just do this:

gpg --decrypt input.pgp > output.txt

Let gpg prompt for your passphrase.  That way, your passphrase is not
part of bash history.

If that doesn't work, let us know what error messages are you getting
from GnuPG.

Regards,

Erik.

John Betz wrote:
> I was hoping to get some help with decrypting an archived file. I am
> using the following command:
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> echo "passphrase"| gpg --passphrase-fd 0 -o output.txt -d input.pgp
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> The output file is created with no problem, however, there is garbage in
> the first record. If I rename the file (or create it) with a .zip
> extension and try to open it with WinZip it does not recognize the file
> as an archive file. When I do the same operation with PGP there is no
> problem.
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> I have scoured the documentation looking for the correct command or
> option for indicating to gpg that the file is an archive file, but no to
> no avail. Any help I can get with this would be appreciated.
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> Thanks,
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> John Betz
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> (office) 703-490-3227
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> (cell) 703-304-2536
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