> Adding this to GnuPG would be too hard. You better use an external
> program for compressing the data
> cat foo | bzip2 | gpg -z0 -e >foo.bz2.gpg
> gpg -d foo
Got it, thanks.
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On Sat, 28 Nov 2020 01:00, Karmanyaah Malhotra said:
> instead of just regular bzip2 when compressing files. I'm not sure if
bzip2 is part of the OpenPGP specs and it is very unlikely that we will
ever add another compression algo. In fact adding bzip2 was already a
bad idea.
> compression
I'm wondering if it would be possibly to somehow use something like
(pbzip2)[https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/pbzip2/]
instead of just regular bzip2 when compressing files. I'm not sure if
this would work with how GnuPG is designed, but it would be nice if
compression could be
