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Article #49Re: Another bug in RIPEM?
From: Danny Guy Frezza
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 03:32
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 03:32
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In a previous article, darrell@cse.ucsc.edu (Darrell Long) says: >If I set the RIPEM_KEY_TO_PRIVATE_KEY environment variable, I can encrypt but >not decrypt. For example, > >sequoia [1]% printenv >HOME=/home/darrell >LOGNAME=darrell >USER=darrell >... >RIPEM_PUBLIC_KEY_FILE=/home/darrell/lib/keys/public >RIPEM_PRIVATE_KEY_FILE=/home/darrell/lib/keys/private >RIPEM_KEY_TO_PRIVATE_KEY=XYZZY >sequoia [2]% ripem -e -m encrypted -r darrell@sequoia | ripem -d >Hello world! Just curious. Did you type a <control> Z after "Hello world"? I tried this on my 386, msdos version, and had no problem. I also tried it from a file, no problem also. Hmm.. >Private key could not be decrypted with this password. > >But if I don't set it, and type the password each time, everything works fine: > >sequoia [1]% ripem -e -m encrypted -r darrell@sequoia | ripem -d >Hello world! >Enter password to private key: >Enter password to private key: >Hello world! > > -- Dan Frezza Internet: bz223@Cleveland.Freenet.Edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!cleveland.Freenet.Edu!bz223 From: bz223@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Danny Guy Frezza) Newsgroups: alt.security.ripem Subject: Re: Another bug in RIPEM? Date: 11 Jan 1993 03:32:36 GMT Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA) Lines: 40 Message-ID: <1iqpokINNjbt@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> References: <1iqftkINN39h@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> Reply-To: bz223@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Danny Guy Frezza) NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu