decrypt problem

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Sun Oct 22 15:58:09 CEST 2006


On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 20:26, Ludwig Hügelschäfer said:

> Issuing a german text seems to be a bug in gpg.

I hope that the translator for German (de.po) won't read this mail ;-)

> The message says "Dateilesefehler" which means "File read error". I
> would suspect a media or drive error. Gpg telling "manipulation of the
> encrypted message" is most probably due to wrong input data and a

The message uses a kind of checksum (the MDC) to detect corruption of
the encrypted message.  This message is a side effect of the read
error.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner





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