> Snoken wrote: > > is the old problem with files greater than 4 GB solved? How large > > files can gpg handle on WindowsXP? On other systems?
My recollection is that the file size issue was fixed years ago, as it was a limitation in the MinGW layer or something that was remedied. I never followed up much, though, becuase GnuPG's encryption was very slow compared with alternatives (7-zip). When I used GnuPG, encryption was CPU-bound, even with compression turned off. When I use 7-zip, encryption of our 500 GB backup files is disk-bound. I also recall that Werner stated the AES code in GnuPG wouldn't be optimized for a number of reasons, becasue of security (timing attacks), and also a desire to keep GnuPG architecture-agnostinc. The faster AES code used by 7-zip pretty much assumes a 32-bit x86 processor is the target. It's C, not assembler, but the data alignment in 7-zip's code is very architecture specific. Regards, Ryan _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
