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gpg: [don't know]: 1st length byte missing
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gpg: [don't know]: 1st length byte missing
while decrypting file only getting this error : what could be the reason for
such decryption fails

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You fed gpg with data not in the OpenPGP format. The begin of the data however
is similar to OpenPGP and thus gpg tries to parse it but stops at the first
detected error.

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