decrypt.rb

[Aki Tuomi]

On 9.4.2019 2.33, Dave via dovecot wrote:
> Per the Dovecot site here:
> https://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/MailCrypt
> ... the "decrypt.rb" ruby script can be used to decrypt a
> Dovecot-encrypted message file from the command line.  The script sort
> of runs successfully for me, in the sense that it doesn't error out,
> but it doesn't show the decrypted message.
>
> I've called it like so:
> decrypt.rb -k <PATH_TO_DOVECOT_KEYFILE> -f ./encrypted_message
>
> But when I do it just displays the info below and exits (I've subbed
> <DATA> tags for the actual data):
>
> ------------------[OUTPUT]-----------------------
>
> Key(s) (total: 1)
>   - Key type  : EC
>   - Key digest: <DATA1>
>   - Peer key  : <DATA2>
>   - Encrypted : <DATA3>
>   - Kd hash   : <DATA4>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
> I've tried specifying an output file as well, per the script's command
> line options, but the output file is 0 bytes.  Does anyone have any
> suggestions?  I *think* I'm using it the way it's intended to be used,
> but maybe I'm not?!
>
> -Dave
>
Hi!

Maybe the key you tried was not used to encrypt the file?

Aki