Finding all files encrypted with a certain key
raf
gnupg at raf.org
Fri Oct 27 01:34:46 CEST 2023
On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 09:38:55PM -0500, Jacob Bachmeyer via Gnupg-users <gnupg-users at gnupg.org> wrote:
> raf via Gnupg-users wrote:
> > [...]
> > While testing these, I just noticed that /usr/bin/file
> > on my macOS-10.14 laptop shows a different keyid to
> > what libmagic shows. That's bizarre.
> >
> > For some encrypted files of mine, /usr/bin/file (v5.33)
> > shows 3A0FC449 817C22BA but libmagic/rh shows 49C40F3A
> > BA227C81 for the same files. A more recent version of
> > file (v5.45) installed via macports shows the same as
> > libmagic/rh. So choose your version of file(1) wisely. :-)
>
> You have an endianness-mismatch issue somewhere. The octets are reversed in
> each 32-bit group between the samples.
>
> -- Jacob
Well spotted! Thanks. The actual endianness wouldn't have changed,
but file's presentation of it much have been fixed (to match
gpg output) between those versions.
cheers,
raf
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