I did encrypt the file myself with the version mentioned above.

I was able to decrypt it with the command line but not with Kleopatra.

Just to clarify, you were able to decrypt and extract it without error? Which tool did you use to extract the tar archive?

That would be interesting. I assumed the problem from T4332 only occured when creating archives. But maybe we have the same problem when decrypting archives.

I'll try to do some more tests but not before the next release.

I was creating a tar archive with 7-Zip on my Windows 10 machine. After the creating was completed I was encrypting the archive like so:

The encryption process was done with Kleopatra via the GPGex menu (Sign and encrypt). After the process was completed successfully I was trying to check the result with the validate entry in the GPGex menu. Kleopatra did show the error I wrote down above.

So I was switching to the command line running the command for decrypt the file via gpg:

gpg -e -o {targetFile} {sourceFile}

The result was a readable tar file without any errors, but trying the same steps with Kleopatra was leading to the mentioned error above all the time. I was getting the error two time not sure how to "trigger" it. Since I did create the bug report the problem was not appearing anymore.

I was able to reporduce this error with the following steps:

1. Creating a tar file (Without compression) from a folder containing 16 elements (kdbx files) with a total of 0,98 MB of data
2. Checking the tar archive if everything is fine
3. Clicking the file with the right mouse button -> Sign and encrypt (GPGex extension)
4. In Kleopatra
   1. Sign with my Signature
   2. Encrypt for myself
   3. Encrypt for someone else (my work signature)
   4. Pressing the Sign / Encrypt button
5. After the task is completed pressing the done button
6. On the newly created .gpg file right click -> decrypt and validate
7. In Kleopatra the following error was shown.

Eingabefehler: Fehler während der Ausführung von F:/Program Files (x86)/Gpg4win/../GnuPG/bin/gpgtar.exe: gpgtar:
[stdin]: invalid octal number encountered - assuming 0 gpgtar:
[stdin]: invalid octal number encountered - assuming 0 gpgtar:
[stdin]: invalid octal number encountered - assuming 0 gpgtar:
[stdin]: invalid octal number encountered - assuming 0 gpgtar:
[stdin]: invalid octal number encountered - assuming 0 gpgtar:
[stdin]: warning: garbage after name gpgtar:
[stdin]: invalid octal number encountered - assuming 0 gpgtar:
[stdin]: invalid octal number encountered - assuming 0 gpgtar:
[stdin]: header block 2 is corrupt (size=0 type=8 nrec=0) gpgtar: error creating '{FileName}.tar_1_/Ù¢šgûKµ
': Invalid argument

Checking if the archive is really broken

1. Deleting the .tar archive created by 7-zip so I will not fool myself
2. Open up the Power-Shell, navigation to the folder with the created gpg file
3. Running the following command: 'gpg -d -o Backup.tar .\{FileName}.tar.gpg'
   1. The signature shown in the terminal is correct
4. Open up the created Backup.tar file and check the content

The file seems to be okay I was able to extract a file and open it up with KeePass2. Unlocking the Database with KeePass did show all the entries saved in the Database.

Hopefully the problem get's reproducible with the steps mentioned above.

I did forget to mention that the key I'm using is 4096 bit long

This applies to my private and my work key, maybe this is part of the problem