Re: [Hampshire] FW: Secure Archives

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Autor: Martin A. Brooks
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On Sat, June 12, 2010 20:23, john wrote:
> Hi
>
> What you want to do is not sensible.
>
> The best thing to do is compress first and then encrypt.
>
> If you do both at the same time you would end up with a larger data file.



gpg uses zlib by default to compress data prior to encypting anyway, and
can optionally use bzip2 instead.