Re: [Hampshire] FW: Secure Archives

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.