On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 02:16:17PM -0500, Ryan Malayter wrote: > On 6/19/07, Henry Hertz Hobbit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > than it took me to tar it. It also takes me much less time to > > encrypt the tarred file than it takes to do the final bzip2 of the > > encrypted file. > > Huh? Why would you try to use bzip2 AFTER encrypting? > Strongly-encrypted data is not compressible. And GnuPG uses gzip > compression by default *before* encryption anyway.
If you want bzip2, use can use bzip2 directly from within GnuPG: --compress-algo bzip2 For some inputs (like text), bzip2 does some impressive things. David _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
