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Not a valid PGP SEA file.
Hi,
When I Google the error in the subject line (with quotes) I get a listing of a Microsoft module. Logical, it is compiled for Windows. When I invoke it in either GUI WinXP or DOS, I get the same error code. However, the program worked once and I used it for a while. It worked fine but I didn't want to use it upfront. I am now trying to reinstall it on a virtual WinXP. I am shy on money and it is a commercial product. The last time it worked was in the 2008-2009 time frame. Dare I turn back the WinXP clock so I can make it install like it did last decade? Honestly, I am shy to be connected with PGP. Thanks. |
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Not a valid PGP SEA file.
Norm X wrote:
Hi, When I Google the error in the subject line (with quotes) I get a listing of a Microsoft module. Logical, it is compiled for Windows. When I invoke it in either GUI WinXP or DOS, I get the same error code. However, the program worked once and I used it for a while. It worked fine but I didn't want to use it upfront. I am now trying to reinstall it on a virtual WinXP. I am shy on money and it is a commercial product. The last time it worked was in the 2008-2009 time frame. Dare I turn back the WinXP clock so I can make it install like it did last decade? Honestly, I am shy to be connected with PGP. Thanks. One suggestion, is to test with a smaller file to begin with. Might this be a PGP SDA file ? SEA tends to stand for Self Extracting Archive, which is very close in concept to the SDA idea. https://support.symantec.com/en_US/a...ECH190654.html "...Self Decrypting Archive" "This is not a valid Win32 executable" "Applies To Windows 32 bit using PGP Desktop / Symantec Encryption Desktop or PGP Command Line with large PGP SDA files 4GB." Apparently, a file with an EXE extension cannot exceed 4GB in size on a 32-bit OS. I would never have thought of making one quite that large :-) ******* The suggestion at the end here, is intriguing. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1...rogramatically "PGP self-decrypting archives is just EXE stub + PGP message inside of this file. You should parse EXE headers, and found where this data is stored, extract it, and decrypt using GnuPG or any other PGP library." The command line for this, could well have a ton of options. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnupg There is a Gpg4win package, but it hides the command line stuff with a GUI. It would be better to just have the command line program plus "user manual", and the tarball on the GNUPG page might be better for such a purpose. If the package was pre-compiled in Cygwin, so much the better. Paul |
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Not a valid PGP SEA file.
When I Google the error in the subject line (with quotes) I get a listing
of a Microsoft module. Logical, it is compiled for Windows. When I invoke it in either GUI WinXP or DOS, I get the same error code. However, the program worked once and I used it for a while. It worked fine but I didn't want to use it upfront. I am now trying to reinstall it on a virtual WinXP. I am shy on money and it is a commercial product. The last time it worked was in the 2008-2009 time frame. Dare I turn back the WinXP clock so I can make it install like it did last decade? Honestly, I am shy to be connected with PGP. Thanks. One suggestion, is to test with a smaller file to begin with. Might this be a PGP SDA file ? SEA tends to stand for Self Extracting Archive, which is very close in concept to the SDA idea. https://support.symantec.com/en_US/a...ECH190654.html "...Self Decrypting Archive" "This is not a valid Win32 executable" "Applies To Windows 32 bit using PGP Desktop / Symantec Encryption Desktop or PGP Command Line with large PGP SDA files 4GB." Apparently, a file with an EXE extension cannot exceed 4GB in size on a 32-bit OS. I would never have thought of making one quite that large :-) ******* The suggestion at the end here, is intriguing. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1...rogramatically "PGP self-decrypting archives is just EXE stub + PGP message inside of this file. You should parse EXE headers, and found where this data is stored, extract it, and decrypt using GnuPG or any other PGP library." The command line for this, could well have a ton of options. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnupg There is a Gpg4win package, but it hides the command line stuff with a GUI. It would be better to just have the command line program plus "user manual", and the tarball on the GNUPG page might be better for such a purpose. If the package was pre-compiled in Cygwin, so much the better. Paul Yes Paul, it is a self extracting archive for the installer. And thank you for the helpful links. I unrared the package years ago. I have the installer and PDF files for documentation. The name is PGPDesktop981. I googled and found it could be downloaded from China. But their filesize is 30 MB while mine is only 2+ MB. Maybe the cost of Unicode. I also found out the most popular OS in China is WinXP. Surprise, surprise. I've used 7zip to examine the internals And the subject line can be found in a 'text' file. But otherwise 7zip is useless. PGP has put a time bomb inside their code. But how do people in China install PGPDesktop981.exe? Win98? I tried turning off the VM eth0: no effect. Maybe turning back the clock would work |
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Not a valid PGP SEA file.
[snippage]
Paul Yes Paul, it is a self extracting archive for the installer. And thank you for the helpful links. I unrared the package years ago. I have the installer and PDF files for documentation. The name is PGPDesktop981. I googled and found it could be downloaded from China. But their filesize is 30 MB while mine is only 2+ MB. Maybe the cost of Unicode. I also found out the most popular OS in China is WinXP. Surprise, surprise. I've used 7zip to examine the internals And the subject line can be found in a 'text' file. But otherwise 7zip is useless. PGP has put a time bomb inside their code. But how do people in China install PGPDesktop981.exe? Win98? I tried turning off the VM eth0: no effect. Maybe turning back the clock would work Turning back the clock is a trivial exercise. But it does not alter dates associated with file. It looks like a job for bittorent to recover PGPDesktop98.exe |
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Not a valid PGP SEA file.
Paul
Yes Paul, it is a self extracting archive for the installer. And thank you for the helpful links. I unrared the package years ago. I have the installer and PDF files for documentation. The name is PGPDesktop981. I googled and found it could be downloaded from China. But their filesize is 30 MB while mine is only 2+ MB. Maybe the cost of Unicode. I also found out the most popular OS in China is WinXP. Surprise, surprise. I've used 7zip to examine the internals And the subject line can be found in a 'text' file. But otherwise 7zip is useless. PGP has put a time bomb inside their code. But how do people in China install PGPDesktop981.exe? Win98? I tried turning off the VM eth0: no effect. Maybe turning back the clock would work Turning back the clock is a trivial exercise. But it does not alter dates associated with file. It looks like a job for bittorent to recover PGPDesktop98.exe Everyone is paranoid. Translation of Chinese download page: 4, this station and the police closely, the release of illegal resources to zero tolerance. Then there is the message that it cannot be downloaded over an insecure connection. Looks like a job for Torr. |
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Not a valid PGP SEA file.
Turning back the clock is a trivial exercise. But it does not alter dates
associated with file. It looks like a job for bittorent to recover PGPDesktop98.exe Everyone is paranoid. Translation of Chinese download page: 4, this station and the police closely, the release of illegal resources to zero tolerance. Then there is the message that it cannot be downloaded over an insecure connection. Looks like a job for Tor. The optimal solution may be to forget commercial software from the past but to use free GNU based Thunderbird. But at this point I have not used PGP key for respondent. Only a test. |
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Not a valid PGP SEA file.
Everyone is paranoid. Translation of Chinese download page: 4, this
station and the police closely, the release of illegal resources to zero tolerance. Then there is the message that it cannot be downloaded over an insecure connection. Looks like a job for Tor. The optimal solution may be to forget commercial software from the past but to use free GNU based Thunderbird. But at this point I have not used PGP key for respondent. Only a test. Current PGP technology relies on a "ring of trust". PGP981 was easier. Thunderbird assumes trust of all to whom encrypted email is sent and no trust otherwise. One corruption destroys ring of trust. Go figure. |
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Not a valid PGP SEA file.
Current PGP technology relies on a "ring of trust". PGP981 was easier.
Thunderbird assumes trust of all to whom encrypted email is sent and no trust otherwise. One corruption destroys ring of trust. Go figure. This is nothing but an implementation of the Great Firewall of China. PGP may protect one's email from the prying eyes of your ISP, the NSA or the Peoples Liberation Army unit 61398, but what good is that? Talk weird and no one understands, encrypted or not. |
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Not a valid PGP SEA file.
Talk weird and no one understands, encrypted or not. 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