Possible bug in gpg?

[Laurent Jumet]

Hello Brad !

"Brad Tilley" <brad at 16systems.com> wrote:


> I have a symmetrically encrypted pgp file here:

> http://16s.us/word_machine/downloads/pgp-easy.tgz.pgp

> gpg will accept the three characters !=X as the password and exit with a
> return status of 0 (although it does not actually decrypt the file):

=== Begin Windows Clipboard ===
[C:\TEMP]gpg -v -v -v pgp-easy.tgz.pgp
gpg: using character set `CP858'
:symkey enc packet: version 4, cipher 3, s2k 3, hash 2
        salt 8dd17929c3935452, count 65536 (96)
gpg: CAST5 encrypted data
:encrypted data packet:
        length: unknown
gpg: encrypted with 1 passphrase
gpg: decryption okay
=== End Windows Clipboard ===


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Laurent Jumet
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