It looks like there is a bug with chunked files where the file size is an integer multiple of the chunk size. Version: 8.8.2 built with go1.19.3 (debian-backports 8.8.2-2~bpo11+1 linux amd64) To replicate: - Create a file that is exactly 1MB, for example (1048576 bytes) dd if=/dev/random bs=1M count=1 of=1m - nncp-file to send it, -chunked 512 (or 256, 128, 64, 32, 16, 8, 4, 2, 1) (I was using nncp-xfer to transfer) - nncp-toss to get the .chunk and .meta files on the destination node in incoming/ - nncp-reass the file to hit the error: ERROR Reassembling chunked file "/var/spool/incoming/1m.nncp.meta": chunk 1: invalid size (this was using 512k chunks; it's always the last chunk it complains about) If the chunks are concatenated together, the original file is recovered, so the issue appears to be with nncp-reass, not creation or transmission. If the file is instead one byte smaller (1048575 bytes), it reassembles without error; same with one byte larger. The problem isn't related to a power of 2. For example, a 6KB file (6144 bytes) -chunked 3, 2, or 1 will hit the same error.