Problem when decrypting PGP messages

Bastien Auneau ba at verisat.no
Thu Sep 15 11:25:53 CEST 2011


Hi

Thanks for the answer
I'm using Thunderbird 6.0.2 on Windows 7 64bit. The account I connect to
is a google account

Regards
Bastien

On 14/09/2011 19:29, David Tomaschik wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 7:19 AM, Bastien Auneau <ba at verisat.no> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Every time I receive a message from a customer. I get :
>> OpenPGP Security Info
>>
>> gpg command line and output:
>> C:\Program Files (x86)\GNU\GnuPG\pub\gpg.exe
>> gpg: invalid armor header: www.pgp.com\r\n
>>
>> gpg: invalid radix64 character 2E skipped
>> gpg: invalid radix64 character 2E skipped
>> gpg: CRC error; 8C9731 - CA3995
>> gpg: packet(3) with unknown version 41
>>
>> Also, the workaround I found is to forward the message to myself, removing :
>>
>> Version: PGP Desktop 10.1.2 (Build 9) - not licensed for commercial use:
>> www.pgp.com
>> Charset: utf-8
>>
>> which is just after
>> -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
>>
>> and just before the crypted message
>>
>> Is there a way to ingnore these 'headers' by default ?
>> Thanks and regards
>> Bastien
> It looks like the "Version" header is too long and is wrapping onto a
> 2nd line.  The 2nd line is not a valid header, and is confusing gpg.
> Most likely, this is caused by the email client on the sending side
> wrapping the text.  (Although maybe some receiving clients re-wrap
> text, I'm not aware of any.)
>
> Can you provide information on the client(s) in use?
>
>
>




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