Subject: bug#37454: EPA (The EasyPG Assistant) problems saving .tar.gpg files

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2020 09:39:54 +0200

Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]> writes:

> However, when loading the back again, after displaying the contents, I
> get:
>
> Parsing tar file... 
> File mode specification error: (error Malformed Tar header)
>
> So there's still some bugs in this area, apparently...

Sorry; I misinterpreted what Emacs was showing me -- the bug is exactly
as you described: The contents of the encrypted file isn't the tar data,
but what Emacs displayed in the buffer.

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