zip encryption?

[Joseph Bruni]

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Adam,

You are correct about combining files. The implementation of an archive 
or hierarchy or file system is quite platform-dependent. Each platform 
has its own idea about what constitutes a file. On unix, one would use 
"tar" to accomplish the same task, except tar provides no compression. 
Since compressing an already-compressed file is usually 
counterproductive, you might get better mileage by turning off 
compression when creating the archive and just use the compression 
provided by GnuPG during the encryption phase.

Joe




On Monday, June 9, 2003, at 11:07 AM, 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!
>
> --Adam
>
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