Jason Barrett wrote: >I'm inclined to agree with you, from a security standpoint. I appreciate >you sending this as it gives me some 'ammunition' against colleagues of >mine who argue that the additional storage taken up by encrypted data >trumps the security of a long cryptography key.
However, GnuPG encrypted files are usually compressed, so they take up even less space. So unless your database is storing diffs, like a versioning database (which won't work when you feed it encrypted files), or you store data that can't be lossless compressed anymore (jpg, xvid), encrypting will even be better in this aspect. -- ir. J.C.A. Wevers // Physics and science fiction site: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // http://www.xs4all.nl/~johanw/index.html PGP/GPG public keys at http://www.xs4all.nl/~johanw/pgpkeys.html _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
