Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2010 14:30:52 -0500 From: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 64-bit PGP isn't Decrypting. Message-ID: <201010041931.o94JUqDX014644@x.it.okstate.edu>
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There are two new FreeBSD8.1 systems. Both got pgp added to them by use of pkg_add -r pgp. Both adds installed Pretty Good Privacy(tm) 2.6.3ia - Public-key encryption for the masses. (c) 1990-96 Philip Zimmermann, Phil's Pretty Good Software. 1996-03-04 International version - not for use in the USA. Does not use RSAREF. A test file that had been encrypted earlier was used on both systems. It works fine on the 32-bit system and always fails on the 64-bit system. Trust me. As many times as I tried it, I couldn't possibly be mistyping the pass phrase every time on the 64-bit system and then getting it right on the 32-bit system. On the 64-bit system, one can not seem to encrypt a file and then decrypt it with the pass phrase. If you take the encrypted file from the 64-bit system and try to decrypt on the 32-bit system, that fails so something appears wrong with the numerical encryption process that is peculiar to being 64 bits. I am thinking some of the cipher routines may be relying on the width of certain expressions that change if running in 64-bit mode. So far, files encrypted on the 64-bit system are ultrasecure in that they can'ts seem to be read anywhere.:-) Has anybody else had the same problem on a 64-bit version of pgp? I am glad I discovered this before anything crytical happened. Martin McCormick
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