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Date:      Mon, 4 Oct 2010 17:22:44 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 64-bit PGP isn't Decrypting.
Message-ID:  <20101004222244.GJ40148@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <201010041931.o94JUqDX014644@x.it.okstate.edu>
References:  <201010041931.o94JUqDX014644@x.it.okstate.edu>

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In the last episode (Oct 04), Martin McCormick said:
> 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.

Does gnupg (ports/security/gnupg) work?  I think you'll have a hard time
trying to get people to fix bugs in pgp; the source tree that the pgp port
uses is 14 years old.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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