Re: Compression used in an encrypted message

2011-03-11 Thread Avi
Thank you for the explanations, everone. --Avi On 3/11/11, David Shaw wrote: > On Mar 11, 2011, at 2:01 PM, Avi wrote: > >> Thanks, everyone. >> >> So we can see the algorithm, but can not be able to see the compression >> level used, correct? > > Not directly, no. OpenPGP just encapsulates the

Re: Compression used in an encrypted message

2011-03-11 Thread David Shaw
On Mar 11, 2011, at 2:01 PM, Avi wrote: > Thanks, everyone. > > So we can see the algorithm, but can not be able to see the compression level > used, correct? Not directly, no. OpenPGP just encapsulates the compressed stream, so you'd have to extract the compressed data and examine it. I'm n

Re: Compression used in an encrypted message

2011-03-11 Thread Avi
Thanks, everyone. So we can see the algorithm, but can not be able to see the compression level used, correct? Thanks, --Avi User:Avraham pub 3072D/F80E29F9 1/30/2009 Avi (Wikimedia-related key) Primary key fingerprint: 167C 063F 7981 A1F6 71EC ABAA 0D62 B019 F80E 29F9 On Fri, Mar

Re: Compression used in an encrypted message

2011-03-11 Thread David Shaw
On Mar 11, 2011, at 12:50 PM, Avi wrote: > Forgive my ignorance, but is there a way to take a given > encrypted message/file and determine which compression algorithm > was used (and which level)? I know how to set compression > algorithm and level prefs, but I'm curious to see what others > use,

Re: Compression used in an encrypted message

2011-03-11 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 12:50:26PM -0500, Avi wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > Forgive my ignorance, but is there a way to take a given > encrypted message/file and determine which compression algorithm > was used (and which level)? I know how to set compression > alg

Compression used in an encrypted message

2011-03-11 Thread Avi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Forgive my ignorance, but is there a way to take a given encrypted message/file and determine which compression algorithm was used (and which level)? I know how to set compression algorithm and level prefs, but I'm curious to see what others use, if