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Re: PGP in forth ?

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jim <anon@example.com> writes:
> One of johns clients (owner of the web site my forum is on) has some
> corrupt pgp files created with commercial software 

Which commercial software is this?  Do you have source code for it?
Have you discussed the issue with the vendor?  Is it really a PGP
implementation or is it something that runs PGP/GPG and wraps the output
somehow?  The latter is much more common.

> I've used it here myself and it randomly creates corrupt pgp output it
> cant decode itself.

Have you tried decoding with GPG?

> Whilst I wont be able to decrypt the files I may be able to correct
> them if its a header fault or similar- if I had source code for a
> generic pgp I can work with that becomes possible.

It's probably better to start with the tool that's messing up and
figure out where it's going wrong, than try to reverse engineer what's
wrong with some garbled-up ciphertext.  

> But since nobody has created PGP in forth (frankly I'm shocked)

I don't see why that's surprising, much less shocking.  It's somewhat
outside the areas where forth is usually used.  I don't see much reason
(other than getting paid) to reimplement PGP in Forth given that
existing PGP/GPG's work perfectly well.

> it looks like brute force and ignorance is all I have to work with -
> and a dissambler and stuff.

If you can't start with the buggy tool, then I'd start with GPG.
E.g. if you get some kind of parse error without an informative message,
run GPG under GDB til you figure out where the error is, and then see if
it's something you can manaully fix.

> Its a bit of a long shot but the files are important 

If the client wants to pay someone to take a shot at recovering them,
that's more direct than commissioning a new PGP implementation.

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PGP in forth ? jim <anon@example.com> - 2016-10-30 23:14 +0000
  Re: PGP in forth ? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-10-30 16:30 -0700
    Re: PGP in forth ? jim <anon@example.com> - 2016-10-31 11:10 +0000
      Re: PGP in forth ? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2016-10-31 15:53 -0700
        Re: PGP in forth ? jim <anon@example.com> - 2016-10-31 23:24 +0000
          Re: PGP in forth ? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-10-31 16:34 -0700
            Re: PGP in forth ? jim <anon@example.com> - 2016-10-31 23:39 +0000
              Re: PGP in forth ? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-10-31 16:54 -0700
                Re: PGP in forth ? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2016-10-31 17:36 -0700
                Re: PGP in forth ? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2016-10-31 20:40 -0700
                Re: PGP in forth ? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2016-10-31 23:12 -0700
                Re: PGP in forth ? jim <anon@example.com> - 2016-11-01 11:36 +0000
                Re: PGP in forth ? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-11-01 08:50 -0700
                Re: PGP in forth ? jim <anon@example.com> - 2016-11-01 16:51 +0000
          Re: PGP in forth ? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2016-10-31 16:54 -0700
            Re: PGP in forth ? jim <anon@example.com> - 2016-11-01 11:18 +0000
              Re: PGP in forth ? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-11-01 09:12 -0700
      Re: PGP in forth ? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-10-31 16:18 -0700
        Re: PGP in forth ? jim <anon@example.com> - 2016-10-31 23:36 +0000
  Re: PGP in forth ? Manuel Rodriguez <aa5@gmx.net> - 2016-10-31 10:24 -0700
    Re: PGP in forth ? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-10-31 17:55 +0000
      Re: PGP in forth ? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2016-10-31 16:27 -0700
      Re: PGP in forth ? jim <anon@example.com> - 2016-10-31 23:26 +0000
        Re: PGP in forth ? Bernd Paysan <bernd@net2o.de> - 2016-11-04 14:16 +0000
    Re: PGP in forth ? jim <anon@example.com> - 2016-10-31 23:34 +0000
      Re: PGP in forth ? Andreas Wagner <andreas.wagner@lowfatcomputing.org> - 2016-10-31 21:22 -0700
      Re: PGP in forth ? Manuel Rodriguez <aa5@gmx.net> - 2016-11-01 03:01 -0700
  Re: PGP in forth ? Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2016-11-01 06:56 +0200
    Re: PGP in forth ? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-10-31 22:28 -0700
      Re: PGP in forth ? Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2016-11-01 08:26 +0200
        Re: PGP in forth ? jim <anon@example.com> - 2016-11-01 11:51 +0000
          Re: PGP in forth ? Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2016-11-01 10:49 -0500
      Re: PGP in forth ? jim <anon@example.com> - 2016-11-01 11:46 +0000
    Re: PGP in forth ? jim <anon@example.com> - 2016-11-01 11:44 +0000
      Re: PGP in forth ? Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2016-11-01 14:00 +0200
        Re: PGP in forth ? albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2016-11-01 13:49 +0100
          Re: PGP in forth ? Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2016-11-01 15:11 +0200
        Re: PGP in forth ? Bugmagnet <bugmagnet@outlook.com> - 2016-11-02 11:20 +0800
          Re: PGP in forth ? Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2016-11-02 06:51 +0200
      Re: PGP in forth ? Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2016-11-01 10:38 -0500
        Re: PGP in forth ? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2016-11-02 03:45 -0500
          Re: PGP in forth ? "Robert L." <No_spamming@noWhere_7073.org> - 2017-01-03 17:25 +0000
        Re: PGP in forth ? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-11-02 11:03 -0400
  Re: PGP in forth ? lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2017-01-05 18:39 -0800
    Re: PGP in forth ? albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2017-01-06 13:25 +0100
      Re: PGP in forth ? lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2017-01-06 05:07 -0800
        Re: PGP in forth ? albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2017-01-06 17:29 +0100
      Re: PGP in forth ? albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2017-01-07 11:56 +0100
        Re: PGP in forth ? lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2017-01-07 13:08 -0800
          Re: PGP in forth ? albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2017-01-08 01:28 +0100
            Re: PGP in forth ? lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2017-01-08 00:30 -0800

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