Thanks for the offer but I would be put in Guantanamo bay if I did that. ^_^
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 5:45 PM, David Shaw <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 03:33:05PM -0500, Scott Lambdin wrote: > > Hello - > > > > 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? > > Most OpenPGP programs compress files before they are encrypted. Some > files (for example, already compressed files) are poison to > compression and actually get bigger. Doubling in size, however, is > not likely. In any event, you don't say that program generated this > file, but at least GPG detects common forms of already-compressed data > and will not attempt to compress it further. > > If you can send me such an encrypted file (my key is 99242560) I will > look at it and see what is going on. > > David > > _______________________________________________ > Gnupg-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users > -- There's a box?
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