On 9 Jan 2009 at 19:15, Faramir wrote: > Hello! > > Scott Lambdin escribió: > ... > > Someone sends us a big ~700MB pgp encrypted file and when we decrypt > > it the resulting file is about half that size. Anyone have an idea > > what they might be doing to swell it up like that? > > That sounds weird... GPG is supposed to compress the files before > encrypting them, IIRC...
What type is the file? If it is just an already perfectly compressed *.zip, *.jpg, *.pdf or similar, then I would guess GPG can not squeeze it further. The encryption itself adds data, thus the result may be bigger than the original. -- Matthias Mansfeld Elektronik * Leiterplattenlayout Neithardtstr. 3, 85540 Haar; Tel.: 089/4620 093-7, Fax: -8 Internet: http://www.mansfeld-elektronik.de GPG http://www.mansfeld-elektronik.de/gnupgkey/mansfeld.asc _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
