Can I decrypt an encrypted file even if someone modified it?
- by kiruthika
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I'm unsure on how to use the GPG command line tool, that we're using to encrypt files.
File.txt is a simple text file:
Testing
hello world
My security things.
This is how I encrypt the file:
gpg --symmetric File.txt
This gives me a new, encrypted file: File.txt.gpg
If someone else now modifies the encrypted file, I'm no longer able to decrypt it.
$ gpg --decrypt File.txt.gpg
gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.
gpg: decrypt_message failed: eof
How can I get the content of my file, even though someone has modified it?
