Erroneous/Varied encryption results

[Sven Radde]

Hi!

YetAnotherGUser schrieb:
> psexec -i \\[machine] -u [domain\user] -p [pwd] -n 4 -high
> "C:\GnuPG\gpg.exe" --recipient "x at x.com"  --yes --output [out_path\file].pgp
> --encrypt [inpath\file]
>
> In all instances the encryption succeeds, but the file contents vary.
> Regards.
This is the intended behaviour, if I understand correctly what you are 
doing.
When encrypting, GnuPG generates a random session key with which the 
data is encrypted. That key is then encrypted using the recipient's 
public key. Therefore, if the same file is encrypted twice, the outputs 
will be totally different (apart from some parts of the metadata).
Check Google/Wikipedia for "hybrid cryptosystem".

HTH, Sven