Using other compression algos with GnuPG

[Werner Koch]

Hi!

just a short note: The reason why we have compresion algorithms in
OpenPGP are mainly out of tradition.  On a Unix system the use of
specialized tools is the way to go; e.g. gpg for encryption and bzip2
for compressing.  

If you want to compress your data with a different algorithm you may
run

  foocompressor data.txt | gpg -e >data.foo.gpg

Shalom-Salam,

   Werner