encryption bloats file

Faramir faramir.cl at gmail.com
Fri Jan 9 23:15:33 CET 2009


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Hello!

Scott Lambdin escribió:
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> Someone sends us a big ~700MB pgp encrypted file and when we decrypt it
> the resulting file is about half that size.  Anyone have an idea what
> they might be doing to swell it up like that?

  That sounds weird... GPG is supposed to compress the files before
encrypting them, IIRC...

  Best Regards
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