Calculating Buffer Size

David Shaw dshaw at jabberwocky.com
Fri Jul 14 14:40:39 CEST 2006


On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 04:19:36PM -0400, Adam Schreiber wrote:
> Is there a way to calculate the unencrypted or unsigned size of an ASCII
> armored encrypted message given the size of the message and the length
> of the key?

Yes, but not if compression is turned on (as it is by default).
Factors are key size, key algorithm, and number of recipients to the
message.

David



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