[107388] in Cypherpunks
Re: PGP mess?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Williams)
Wed Jan 13 08:42:40 1999
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 08:15:15 -0500 (EST)
From: Ken Williams <jkwilli2@unity.ncsu.edu>
To: fygrave@tigerteam.net
cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.05.9901131136560.457-100000@gizmo.kyrnet.kg>
Reply-To: Ken Williams <jkwilli2@unity.ncsu.edu>
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On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, CyberPsychotic wrote:
>> Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 11:41:23 +0500 (KGT)
>> From: CyberPsychotic <mlists@gizmo.kyrnet.kg>
>> Reply-To: fygrave@tigerteam.net
>> To: cypherpunks@toad.com
>> Subject: PGP mess?
>>
>> hmm.. just curious if anyone faced such a (bug?) in pgp 5.0i.
>> the thing is:
>>
>> I gzip file (so we get so far 'white-noisy' binary sequence) I encode
>> binary sequence(file) with uuencode, I crypt it with pgpe , I send to
>> another addy which also uses pgp 5.0i, I decrypt the uuencoded file, and I
>> find 'holes' in it. (i.g. some pieces of encoded file are missed). Anyone
>> has a clue what happens?
>>
>>
>> --
>> fygrave@tigerteam.net http://www.kalug.lug.net
>>
>>
hey,
i followed the exact sequence you described, plus a few variations out of
curiosity, and could not produce the same skewed results; everything was
fine. for reference, i used GNU gzip 1.2.4, uuencode - GNU sharutils 4.2,
PGP for Personal Privacy Version: unix50i1b. i used key sizes ranging
from 1024-4096 bits, tried it with pgp2.6.2i and pgp2.6.3is also, tried
encrypting with several keys, and more. all of this was done on Solaris
2.5.1 and RH 5.2. the only problem i had was that i tried so many
variations that i got confused at one point and had to double check my
decoding/decompression process - maybe that's where your problem lies.
Regards,
Ken Williams
jkwilli2@csc.ncsu.edu
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