[ale] Encrypting Large Files with pgp

[Michael Potter]

Thanks,
The sys admin tried to install pgp, but ran into dependency hell.
He was installing on AIX.
He has switched to using split and pgp.
Using split will run faster anyway because he will be able to run pgp
in parallel on the files.

Better idea welcome....

On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Brian Mathis
<brian.mathis+ale at betteradmin.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Michael Potter <michael at potter.name> wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> I am having a hard time encrypting a 21GB file with pgp:
>>
>> here is the command line:
>> When I attempt the 21GB db2 gzipped backup file:
>> hostname: /backups#pgp -c MYFILE.gz
>> Pretty Good Privacy(tm) Version 6.5.8
>> (c) 1999 Network Associates Inc.
>> Uses the RSAREF(tm) Toolkit, which is copyright RSA Data Security, Inc.
>> Export of this software may be restricted by the U.S. government.
>>
>> You need a pass phrase to encrypt the file.
>> Enter pass phrase:
>> Enter same pass phrase again:
>> Encryption error
>>
>> For a usage summary, type:  pgp -h
>> For more detailed help, consult the PGP User's Guide.
>>
> ___________________________________________________________________________________
>> A smaller file that works:
>> hostname: /backups#pgp -c MYFILE
>> Pretty Good Privacy(tm) Version 6.5.8
>> (c) 1999 Network Associates Inc.
>> Uses the RSAREF(tm) Toolkit, which is copyright RSA Data Security, Inc.
>> Export of this software may be restricted by the U.S. government.
>>
>> You need a pass phrase to encrypt the file.
>> Enter pass phrase:
>> Enter same pass phrase again:
>>
>> Ciphertext file: MYFILE.pgp
>>
>> Any suggestions besides splitting the file?
>>
>> Michael Potter
>
>
>
> That's an awfully old version of PGP, so I suspect the file is simply
> too big.  Is there any reason you are not using GPG?  That would be
> much more up to date and should support large files.
>
>
> ❧ Brian Mathis
>
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