Known Problems
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updated 3 Sept 2000
- Entropy & Key generation
DESCRIPTION: The key and sub-key generation functions always require the entropy-gathering dialog, no matter how much apparent entropy is available.
STATUS: Outstanding as of 3 Sept 2000.
- SPGP & NT Services
DESCRIPTION: There are several reports of an application working with SPGP under Windows NT, but crashing when used as a service. Possibly related is a report of similar behavior when trying to create an Agent for MS Outlook.
STATUS: Possibly resolved as of 11/4/00? See the FAQ entry for NT.
- Repeated Calls to spgpEncodeFile Causes Crash
DESCRIPTION: If a function calls spgpEncodeFile 255 times, a crash will occur on the 254th encryption. For unknown reasons, the PGP DLL returns -11997 (file not found) on the 254th and successive calls.
STATUS: The problem appears to come from the PGP DLL itself.
- KeyImportFile Buffer Crash
DESCRIPTION: During KeyImportFile, if the KeyProps buffer is too small to hold the function's output, a crash occurs.
STATUS: The exact source of the problem is unknown, but the crash can be avoided by carefully estimating the necessary buffer size before calling the function.
- Analyze Functions Report Armored Data as Signed
DESCRIPTION: Data which has been ASCII-armored without encryption or signing will be reported as signed by the spgpAnalyze and spgpAnalyzeFile functions.
STATUS: This is a flaw in PGP.
- Out-of-Disk-Space Errors
DESCRIPTION: When encrypting files, SPGP does not return an error if the process fails due to a lack of disk space. Partial or zero-size output files are not cleaned up after such failures.
VERSION: This is limited to PGP 5.5.x. PGP version 6.x returns an error code as expected.
STATUS: This is a flaw in PGP.
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