failed decryption

Mick Crane mick.crane at gmail.com
Sun Apr 19 11:21:35 CEST 2015



> On 19 Apr 2015, at 06:42, Adam Gold <awg1 at gmx.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm attempting to decrypt a symmetrically encrypted tarball appx 25GB in
> size.  It goes as follows:
> 
> gpg [file].tar.bz2.gpg
> gpg: AES256 encrypted data
> gpg: encrypted with 1 passphrase
> gpg: packet(7) with unknown version 41
> gpg: WARNING: encrypted message has been manipulated!
> gpg: packet(5) with unknown version 241
> 
> 
The problem with encrypting files for storage seems to be that if there is any corruption there is no way to get any of it back.


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