Critical PGP and S/MIME bugs

Originally Posted by mike acker here's the result: $ gpg Chromebook_Analysis-XX.html.asc gpg: WARNING: no command supplied. Trying to guess what you mean ... ...

If you don't pass the --decrypt option, then it writes the plaintext to a file.

Relevant update in gpg 2.2.8:

https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gn...q2/000425.html

* gpg: Decryption of messages not using the MDC mode will now lead to a hard failure even if a legacy cipher algorithm was used. The option --ignore-mdc-error can be used to turn this failure into a warning. Take care: Never use that option unconditionally or without a prior warning.