On 11/23/2012 12:17 AM, andre76 at fastmail.fm wrote: > What is the possibility of gpg encrypted file becoming corrupted? Miniscule, to the point where I have not ever heard of GnuPG mangling a file. Your file may get corrupted while it's on disk, a stray cosmic ray may flip a bit, and so on, but GnuPG itself is quite reliable in this regard.