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--- pgpfan:agevspgp [2021/08/01 14:26] – [Signed Backups] More to the point b.walzer
+++ pgpfan:agevspgp [2021/12/28 18:31] – [Data Recovery] Single flipped bit. b.walzer
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 To be clear, "recovery" here is the sifting of good data from bad. Neither age or GnuPG can regenerate good data from redundant bad data.
-Here is what this would look like in practice using the example of a single flipped bit near the start of the encrypted file. First age:
+Here is what this would look like in practice using the example of a single flipped bit((Please note that the single flipped bit here is not a realistic example and that in practice damage tends to encompass one or more media blocks. Such blocks tend to be multiples of 512 bytes.)) near the start of the encrypted file. First age:
   $ age -d -i key.txt -o totc_out.txt totc.txt.age