forcing "--compress-algo Uncompressed" in gpgme

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Thu May 8 04:08:07 CEST 2014


On 05/07/2014 10:39 AM, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Tue,  6 May 2014 11:05, dkg at fifthhorseman.net said:
>> Is there a way to do this that i'm missing?  or does gpgme need to be
>> extended to make this work?
> 
> For encrypt and encrypt_sign it will be easy to add a flag
> 
>     GPGME_ENCRYPT_NO_COMPRESS = 16

This sounds reasonable, thanks.

> But for a plain sign operation I see no easy way to convey such a flag.
> OTOH, such a flag is does not see every useful in that case.

yeah, i don't see as much of a concern about the compression on signed
messages -- there's no need to guess at the content of the message based
on the compressed size if the content is cleartext anyway.

Regards,

	--dkg

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