Hunter, Bryan wrote: > > A timing of a simple encryption .... showed that GnuPG > took 2 1/2 times longer than an old PGP program. Strange... my results (on a 100MB random/binary file) are: PGP 2.6.2: 74 seconds GPG 1.0.6-2: 26 seconds BTW, a dedicated file/crypt program (burp120, blowfish) is considerably faster: 14 seconds Roger