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Marco Giusti
Marco Giusti

Reputation: 47

Ruby GPGME - How to encrypt large files

I'm having difficulty to Encrypt large files (bigger than available memory) using GPGME in Ruby.

#!/usr/bin/ruby
require 'gpgme'

def gpgfile(localfile)
  crypto = GPGME::Crypto.new
  filebasename = File.basename(localfile)
  filecripted = crypto.encrypt File.read(localfile), :recipients => "[email protected]", :always_trust => true
  File.open("#{localfile}.gpg", 'w') { |file| file.write(filecripted) }
end

gpgpfile("/home/largefile.data")

In this case I got an error of memory allocation: "read: failed to allocate memory (NoMemoryError)"

Someone can explain me how to read the source file chunk by chunk (of 100Mb for example) and write them passing by the crypting?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1009

Answers (1)

Jordan Running
Jordan Running

Reputation: 106077

The most obvious problem is that you're reading the entire file into memory with File.read(localfile). The Crypto#encrypt method will take an IO object as its input, so instead of File.read(localfile) (which returns the contents of the file as a string) you can pass it a File object. Likewise, you can give an IO object as the :output option, letting you write the output directly to a file instead of in memory:

def gpgfile(localfile)
  infile = File.open(localfile, 'r')
  outfile = File.open("#{localfile}.gpg", 'w')

  crypto = GPGME::Crypto.new    
  crypto.encrypt(infile, recipients: "[email protected]",
                         output: outfile,
                         always_trust: true)
ensure
  infile.close
  outfile.close
end

I've never used ruby-gpgme, so I'm not 100% sure this will solve your problem since it depends a bit on what ruby-gpgme does behind the scenes, but from the docs and the source I've peeked at it seems like a sanely-built gem so I'm guessing this will do the trick.

Upvotes: 2

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