Problem when decrypting PGP messages

[Jerry]

On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:25:53 +0000
Bastien Auneau articulated:

> 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?

> 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
>
{Bastien, don't top post, it makes following the thread a lot harder
than necessary}

It would be my opinion that Google was at fault. They have screwed up
GPG before on me.

-- 
Jerry ✌
GNUPG.user at seibercom.net
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