Problem decrypting large file.

[Werner Koch]

On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 06:32:44 -0500, Peter C Chapin said:

> the workaround described in the September posts was shown to possibly not
> work in the October posts and no resolution was discussed. Am I to
> conclude that gpg simply can't reliably encrypt multi-gigabyte files on

It definitely can.  The safe why of doing so is by using i/o
redirection; i.e.:

  gpg -e <plain >plain.gpg

This way the size of PLAIN is irrelevant to gpg.  The shell (cmd.exe)
is responsible for opening the files the correct way.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner