compression info & "--verbose"

[Atom 'Smasher']

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On Sun, 18 Jul 2004, David Shaw wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 04:58:56PM -0400, Atom 'Smasher' wrote:

>>> 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.
>> =======================
>>
>> or just get gibberish when decrypting.
>
> No.  The compression algorithm is stored within the message.  If it
> can be handled, it is.  It if cannot be handled because the message
> uses a compression algorithm that GnuPG does not have, GnuPG stops.
> It will not give you gibberish back since it cannot even get to that
> part of the decryption process.
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i must've not made myself clear....

i mean that if compression is done outside of gpg like this:
 	$ date | gzip | gpg -ear {key_id}
or
 	$ date | gzip | gpg --compress-algo 0 -ear {key_id}

it will produce a message that, when decrypted, will produce gibberish. 
gibberish in, gibberish out.

still, my desire is to see what algorithm gpg is using to de/encrypt the 
message by use of the "--verbose" flag.


         ...atom

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