compression info & "--verbose"

[Atom 'Smasher']

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On Sun, 18 Jul 2004, Werner Koch wrote:

> On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 14:50:20 -0400 (EDT), Atom 'Smasher' said:
>
>> the sender's side. as a practical matter, if one receives a message
>> that's not compressed then something weird is going on.
>
> You will receive such a message if the data fed to gpg has already
> been compressed; i.e. the compression was done outside of gpg.
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or just get gibberish when decrypting.

what i want to know (when using --verbose) is what compression algorithm 
(currently 0-3) the application used to compress the encrypted data...


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Comment: What is this gibberish?
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