compression info & "--verbose"

[Atom 'Smasher']

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On Sun, 18 Jul 2004, David Shaw wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 05:23:02AM -0400, Atom 'Smasher' wrote:
>> when processing a message, why doesn't "--verbose" display information
>> about the compression algorithm and level?
>
> No major reason, except that the compression algorithm isn't that
> relevant to the security of the message.
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but whether or not the message is compressed ~does~ impact the security of 
the message <http://nullify.org/docs/pgp-attack.pdf>, and in the same 
amount of space it takes to display if it's compressed, the compression 
type (or "0/uncompressed") can be displayed.

also, this can help determine that a senders implementation is working... 
if one receives a message that's bzip2 compressed, but that's not listed 
in their preferences, there's likely a problem on the sender's side. as a 
practical matter, if one receives a message that's not compressed then 
something weird is going on.


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