zip encryption?

Daniel Carrera dcarrera@math.umd.edu
Mon Jun 9 18:55:02 2003


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On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 11:16:00AM -0400, CL Gilbert wrote:
> Do you think public key encryption alal gpg could be used with bzip or
> some other zip so that zipped files could be opened by passing them the
> private key?

How is that different from what gpg currently does?
GnuPG compresses files before encrypting them to reduce redundancy.


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