encryption bloats file

Scott Lambdin lopaki at gmail.com
Fri Jan 9 23:36:25 CET 2009


Yes, even with compression disabled, my test files were about the same size
encrypted or not.

Oh!  armored?   will test.

On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Faramir <faramir.cl at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hello!
>
> Scott Lambdin escribió:
> ...
> > Someone sends us a big ~700MB pgp encrypted file and when we decrypt it
> > the resulting file is about half that size.  Anyone have an idea what
> > they might be doing to swell it up like that?
>
>  That sounds weird... GPG is supposed to compress the files before
> encrypting them, IIRC...
>
>  Best Regards
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