10x compression factor

[Chris Fox]

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Hasnain Mujtaba wrote:
| Hi,
|
| A client has presented an astonishing metric. They say they have a 1Gig
| plaintext file which they can compress and PGP encrypt down to 80Mb! I
| don't know what tool they are using.
|
| How is this possible? What compression algorithm could they be using?
| Can I achieve this sort of compression using GPG?

10:1 for text is unremarkable compression.  They're probably using PKZIP
technology before the encryption.
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Chris Fox, Windows User, Linux User (#341856), non-partisan
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