Disabling compression when encrypting

[Laurent Jumet]

Hello Caleb !

Caleb Marcus <caleb.marcus at gmail.com> wrote:

> I prefer to use external compression tools before encrypting my data
> with GnuPG. Is there any way to disable compression in GnuPG to avoid
> the CPU overhead of the unnecessary additional layer of compression
> while encrypting?

    There are several ways to disable compression:
"-z 0" or "--compress-level 0" on the command line, or the latter in the options file.

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Laurent Jumet
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