On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 04:49:11PM -0600, Ryan Malayter wrote: > On 1/20/06, David Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's always possible for someone to add a nonstandard algorithm, but > > if you really want a particular algorithm, it's healthier to get the > > OpenPGP working group to add it officially. > > The RAR compression algorithm proprietary and closed source, so it is > not likely to make it into any standards. RARlabs has refused for > years to allow anyone else to make RAR encoders (although they exist > in violation of the RARlabs license). > > See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAR > > A much better choice would be the LZMA algorithm from 7zip, which is > open-source and unpatented. It compresses with similar efficiency and > speed to RAR. > > In any case, though, such slow-but-compact algorithms are really only > useful for archival purposes. While I have used PGP for some > archiving, this is not the most common usage of PGP, and probably not > an OpenPGP design goal.
In fact, BZIP2 was added pretty much for archival purposes: http://www.imc.org/ietf-openpgp/mail-archive/msg04624.html I wouldn't be against LZMA if it was significantly better than BZIP2. David _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
