zip encryption?

[Daniel Carrera]

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On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 02:07:00PM -0400, Adam Pavelec wrote:
> On Monday, June 09, 2003 12:56 PM [GMT-5=EST], Daniel Carrera wrote:
> 
> > How is that different from what gpg currently does?
> > GnuPG compresses files before encrypting them to reduce redundancy.
> 
> But as far as I know, you can't combine multiple files into one
> gpg-encrypted file without first creating a zip archive.  Please let me know
> if I am wrong!

Sure you can.  You can create a TAR archive :)

Serisouly now, no I don't think you can archive with gpg.  I think that 
gpg uses gzip, which doesn't do archives.  If you encrypted archives you'd 
use gpg combined with tar in exactly the same way that people use tar 
combined with gzip to make compressed archives.

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