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Scott
Scott

Reputation: 917

Decrypting with GPG doesn't create an output file

I have a PGP file which I usually decrypt using the PGP Corp. app on windows. In trying to get the process working on linux, I've hit a snag. Here's the command I'm using. 

gpg --output ~/decrypted.txt -d encrypted_report.txt.pgp

I'm then prompted for a pass phrase (which gpg accepts) but then... nothing. No output file is created and no errors are displayed.

Toggling verbose mode displays no extra information other than this at the beginning of gpgs output

gpg: public key is 11919529
gpg: using subkey 11919529 instead of primary key 4FB1F60F

I did import the keyring from windows successfully, but I have no idea what's going on here. I believe the encrypted file may be a PGP-zip file. In trying to extract with the pgp-zip command, I get a tar error (which would make sense, as I'm pretty sure it's a PGP zip file created by the Windows PGP application).

Any help or hints would be much appreciated.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 6479

Answers (1)

BellevueBob
BellevueBob

Reputation: 9618

It seems that your original file was downloaded as ASCII such that it was "corrupted" on your Linux system. When you downloaded the file again using BINARY, your troubles magically disappeared.

This is a very common problem. Although easy to "fix", it can be hard to uncover.

Upvotes: 2

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