Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tektronix!sequent!ccssrv!perry From: perry@ccssrv.UUCP (Perry Hutchison) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Encryption and editing (encrypted mail revisited) Message-ID: <674@ccssrv.UUCP> Date: 23 Sep 89 03:17:54 GMT References: <226@usna.MIL> Reply-To: perry@ccssrv.UUCP (Perry Hutchison) Organization: Control-C Software, Inc., Beaverton, OR Lines: 12 In article <226@usna.MIL> baldwin@cad.usna.mil.UUCP (J. D. Baldwin) writes: > Whenever I edit an encrypted file in *any* way, it trashes the info! > I imagine that jove is adding some kind of end-of-file character ... > I am using jove in (Text) mode. My guess is that the editor is removing nulls and perhaps other non-text characters from the encrypted file, clearing high bits, or something of the sort. Using binary mode may help, but the file will still get messed up in transmission. Try uuencoding it. (Of course then the recipient needs to have uudecode.)