RSA 4096 ridiculous?

[Werner Koch]

On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:16, malayter at gmail.com said:

> Huh? Why would you try to use bzip2 AFTER encrypting?
> Strongly-encrypted data is not compressible. And GnuPG uses gzip
> compression by default *before* encryption anyway.

You may also use bzip2 encryption using "--compress-algo bzip2".  This
overrides the preference system as the used compression method is
subject to preference calculation.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner