64-bit PGP isn't Decrypting.
Dan Nelson
dnelson at allantgroup.com
Mon Oct 4 22:22:55 UTC 2010
In the last episode (Oct 04), Martin McCormick said:
> There are two new FreeBSD8.1 systems. Both got pgp added to them by use of
> pkg_add -r pgp. Both adds installed
>
> Pretty Good Privacy(tm) 2.6.3ia - Public-key encryption for the masses.
> (c) 1990-96 Philip Zimmermann, Phil's Pretty Good Software. 1996-03-04
> International version - not for use in the USA. Does not use RSAREF.
>
> A test file that had been encrypted earlier was used on both systems. It
> works fine on the 32-bit system and always fails on the 64-bit system.
> Trust me. As many times as I tried it, I couldn't possibly be mistyping
> the pass phrase every time on the 64-bit system and then getting it right
> on the 32-bit system.
Does gnupg (ports/security/gnupg) work? I think you'll have a hard time
trying to get people to fix bugs in pgp; the source tree that the pgp port
uses is 14 years old.
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Dan Nelson
dnelson at allantgroup.com
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