On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 04:41:00PM -0400, Gentoo-Wally wrote: > If you sign a file using --sign > > gpg --output doc.sig --sign doc > > the docs say.... > > http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html#AEN136 > > "The document is compressed before being signed, and the output is in > binary format." > > This means that the output file doc.sig is compressed and signed. > This does _NOT_ mean it is encrypted...correct?
Correct. > --sign does not sign and encrypt, right? Right. You do '--sign --encrypt' to sign and encrypt. > Also, what is the compression method? It depends on your configuration, but by default it's the ZIP algorithm. David _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
