How to NOT gnutar files during encryption?

[Einar Ryeng]

Hi,

On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 04:30:13PM -0500, helices wrote:
> 
> After many hours troubleshooting, I discovered that the decrypted "zip"
> file is actually inside a TAR file!
> 
> Further investigation reveals that Kleopatra is gnuTARring the ZIP file
> prior to encryption.
> 
> How can this new client NOT gnutar files, and still properly encrypt the
> ZIP file?
> 
> What are we missing?

Sounds like either a bug or a somewhat stupid default setting in Kleopatra
(which I have never used). A workaround on the receiving end could be to detect
that the file is a tar file and unpack it before further processing.

Something like this:

#!/bin/bash
FILENAME=$1
FILE_MIMETYPE=$(file -iN $FILENAME)

if [[ "$FILE_MIMETYPE" =~ "$FILENAME: application/x-tar; charset=binary" ]]
then
    tar xvf $FILENAME
fi

As usual, du NOT run code from random people on the Internet.

-- 
Einar Ryeng