[dm-crypt] reading archives

[dm-crypt] reading archives

[Scott Castaline]

Probably a dumb question, but how does one read the unpacked files? They 
are named as .txt files but text editors can't open them and from a 
gnome-terminal if you cat the file it looks like a binary file. What do 
I need to read them?

Re: [dm-crypt] reading archives

[Arno Wagner]

I tried this on Linux, silmply gunzip and it works.

I also tried it with 7zip on Windows, and it seems it 
does not unzip, an the file size stays the same.
Same with the gzip Windows binary from 
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/gzip.htm

Seems like a bug in the gzip library on Windows.

I have sent a bug-report to support@gzip.org

Arno


On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 05:32:00PM -0500, Scott Castaline wrote:
> Probably a dumb question, but how does one read the unpacked files? They  
> are named as .txt files but text editors can't open them and from a  
> gnome-terminal if you cat the file it looks like a binary file. What do  
> I need to read them?
> _______________________________________________
> dm-crypt mailing list
> dm-crypt@saout.de
> http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
>

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[dm-crypt] Re2: reading archives

[Arno Wagner]

Ok, I looked a bit closer. It seems this is compressed 
on-the-fly and corrupted on server side. Strangely
the corruption seems to be a windows thing or at least
browser dependent. I got suspicuous after I got two 
different sized files with Opera and Firefox. On
Linux I downloaded with wget for yet another size.

After a bit of messing around, I have it now:
Under Windows the files get compressed with gzip 
twice! Possibly some terminally stupid, over-helpful
automatisation that decided to make sure it is a 
gzip'ed file.

Temporary workaround for Windows:

Decompress, rename to name.gz and decompress again.
You may also have to click through a folder hierachy
(that I had no idea gzip could support).

Admin of the archive cc'ed, just in case.

Arno



On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 12:53:12AM +0100, Arno Wagner wrote:
> I tried this on Linux, silmply gunzip and it works.
> 
> I also tried it with 7zip on Windows, and it seems it 
> does not unzip, an the file size stays the same.
> Same with the gzip Windows binary from 
> http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/gzip.htm
> 
> Seems like a bug in the gzip library on Windows.
> 
> I have sent a bug-report to support@gzip.org
> 
> Arno
> 
> 
> On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 05:32:00PM -0500, Scott Castaline wrote:
> > Probably a dumb question, but how does one read the unpacked files? They  
> > are named as .txt files but text editors can't open them and from a  
> > gnome-terminal if you cat the file it looks like a binary file. What do  
> > I need to read them?
> > _______________________________________________
> > dm-crypt mailing list
> > dm-crypt@saout.de
> > http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
> >
> 
> -- 
> Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: arno@wagner.name 
> GnuPG:  ID: 1E25338F  FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C  0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F
> ----
> Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans
> 
> If it's in the news, don't worry about it.  The very definition of 
> "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier 
> _______________________________________________
> dm-crypt mailing list
> dm-crypt@saout.de
> http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
> 

-- 
Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: arno@wagner.name 
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----
Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans

If it's in the news, don't worry about it.  The very definition of 
"news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier 

[dm-crypt] reading archives

[Scott Castaline]

Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 00:53:12 +0100
From: Arno Wagner <arno@wagner.name>
To: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] reading archives
Message-ID: <20100303235312.GA603@tansi.org>
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I tried this on Linux, silmply gunzip and it works.

I also tried it with 7zip on Windows, and it seems it
does not unzip, an the file size stays the same.
Same with the gzip Windows binary from
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/gzip.htm

Seems like a bug in the gzip library on Windows.

I have sent a bug-report to support@gzip.org

Arno

I used File Archiver or file roller as supplied by Fedora and I was 
unable to open the file in gedit. I tried doing cat 2009-August.txt and 
got what looked like output from a binary file or at least not a text 
file. I tonight tried unpacking from the command line (gunzip -dfv 
2009-August.txt.gz) and got the same results. I had tried it also to the 
December file.