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"T.H.E. Walrus" <thewalru@freenet.hut.fi> writes:

> At 16.52 25/11/99 GMT, Zygo Blaxell wrote:
>
> [gpg ---> pgp 2.6.3 error]
> >Error: Decrypted plaintext is corrupted.
>
> this happens to me only when text to encrypt was piped to GPG.
> (this problem is reported in GPG FAQ)
>
> no problem when text is saved to file before encrypting.

You will see it also when compression is in use. So "-z 0" might
help.



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On Thu, 25 Nov 1999 19:31:29 +0100, Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> wrote:
>"T.H.E. Walrus" <thewalru@freenet.hut.fi> writes:
>> At 16.52 25/11/99 GMT, Zygo Blaxell wrote:
>> [gpg ---> pgp 2.6.3 error]
>> >Error: Decrypted plaintext is corrupted.
>>
>> this happens to me only when text to encrypt was piped to GPG.
>> (this problem is reported in GPG FAQ)

Hmmm...the FAQ (the automatic one) that I found on www.gnupg.org didn't
mention the piping part, only a long report of weird problems. Is there
another one?

This _does_ work around the problem, though.

>> no problem when text is saved to file before encrypting.
>
>You will see it also when compression is in use. So "-z 0" might
>help.

"-z 0" doesn't seem to make a difference, i.e. pgp 2.6 can decrypt text
encrypted by gpg whether or not '-z 0' is used on the gpg command line.


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On 25 Nov 99, at 19:54, Zygo Blaxell wrote:

> Hmmm...the FAQ (the automatic one) that I found on www.gnupg.org
> didn't mention the piping part, only a long report of weird problems.
> Is there another one?

the FAQ in GPG distribution.

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