[aklug] Re: Enigmail Hack for Decrypting Large E-mails with Attachments?

From: Christopher Howard <choward@indicium.us>
Date: Wed Oct 07 2009 - 20:40:51 AKDT

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Shane Spencer wrote:
> I FIXED IT!
>
> On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Christopher Howard <choward@indicium.us> wrote:
> Christopher Howard wrote:
>>>> I tried to send a an e-mail with several large attachments between two
>>>> of my e-mail accounts, using Thunderbird and OpenPGP
>>>> encryption/signature. I can encrypt and send just fine, but after
>>>> receiving I go to decrypt the message and Thunderbird says "Message too
>>>> large to decrypt and verify."
>>>> Apparently this is a longstanding, unresolved bug in Enigmail. I can
>>>> download this message, but since it is eml format I am not sure how
>>>> (without learning about eml and writing big scripts) to separate the
>>>> encrypted part from the decrypted part, and then pull each attachment
>>>> out of the decrypted part.
>>>>
>>>> Anyone know of any quick hacks related to this issue?
>>>>
> Okay, strange stuff here... I go back 5 minutes later, click on the
> e-mail again, and now it is decrypted. (???) Um, I guess that issue is
> resolved...
>

You know, I wouldn't be entirely surprised if sometime after I joined
this list one of you guys managed to hack into my system. Especially
after that last discussion we had on internal network security.

Well, better get to that homework... I've got five programming
assignments due by midnight...

- --
Christopher Howard
http://indicium.us
http://theologia.indicium.us
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