Re: openssl has 2gb limit ?

[Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@gmail.com>]

On 8/3/05, Markus.Grunwald@pruftechnik.com
<Markus.Grunwald@pruftechnik.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> today I tried to encrypt a 3.2Gb file with openssl:
> 
> openssl enc -aes256 -e -salt -pass file:filename.pwd -in filename -out
> filename.openssl
> 
> It aborted with the error:
> "Die maximale Dateigröße ist überschritten" = "Maximum file size is
> exceeded"
> 
> filename.openssl is then exactly 2Gb big...
> 
> I thought the 2gb limit is a relict ? Should I report a bug ?

If you can reproduce this with the version in unstable, it sounds like
it merits a wishlist bug, yes.