Re: [Cryptix-users] Decrypting PGP encrypted data

[Edwin W. <ed...@wo...>]

--On 22-12-2005 15:47 -0500 Mike Ferraro <mik...@ha...> wrote:
>
> I think that I may have seen a message about this earlier, but I can't
> seem to find it.  I've come across a small issue when decrypting PGP
> encrypted data.  When decrypting the data, Cryptix seems to add a
> newline character to the end of the original data.  It seems to me that
> the original data should not have changed in any way.  Can someone
> confirm this behavior in Cryptix to make sure that it's not just
> something in my own code?
>
> I'm just testing using a simple string such as "Testing 1, 2, 3...",
> encrypting the string and then immediately decrypting it and comparing
> the result with the original.  I am using the 20050418 OpenPGP snapshot,
> the 20050328 JCE snapshot, and a key pair that was generated using
> Cryptix.

If you're passing in a string, the canonicalization does this (amongst some 
other things like dash-escaping, changing all line endings to CRLF etc). 
Some recent posts on the openpgp standards list suggest that this 
particular behaviour for the last line can be tweaked.

As a workaround: use the methods in the LiteralMessageBuilder that take a 
byte[] instead of a String. These


-- 
Edwin