Problem after going from gpg 1.2.6 to 1.4.5

Anilkumar Padmaraju apadmaraju at prounlimited.com
Thu Feb 14 18:06:14 CET 2013


Hi Werner,

Thank you for the replay.

We found the issue is not related to GPG, but with file conversion.  It is
no more a issue now.  Please ignore this.

 Thank you,

 Anil

On Thursday, February 14, 2013, Werner Koch wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 00:00, apadmaraju at prounlimited.com <javascript:;>said:
>
> > However, with 1.4.5 we get an encrypted file everything in one line
> > and gets cut at 80th char.  With 1.2.6 we used to get an encrypted
> > file in multiple lines with 80 chars per line and was able to see
> > complete file.
>
> That pretty much looks like a post processing problem in your script.
> GPG's armor format does not output more than 64 characters per line.  IT
> is possible that old versions uses up to 72 characters but definitely
> never more than 76 as per specs.
>
> BTW, you should also use "--batch" when invoking gpg from a script and
> take care to properly quote argumens, so that filenames with spaces
> work.
>
> > With 1.4.5, how to get it in 80 char format per line?  Right now we
>
> Why did you switch to a 6 year old version of GnuPG with 4 known CVE
> indetified bugs?
>
> > cannot upgrade to beyond 1.4.5 because of consistency issues.
>
> Please explain.  There is no incompatibility between 1.4.5 and later
> versions.
>
>
> Shalom-Salam,
>
>    Werner
>
> --
> Die Gedanken sind frei.  Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz.
>
>

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