encryption bloats file

[Scott Lambdin]

--armor option swells it up some but doesn't double it.

gpg -r B00BFACE --armor -e -z 0 vshell2.txt

43261322 Mar  6  2008 vshell2.txt
58583901 Jan  9 14:40 vshell2.txt.asc


On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Scott Lambdin <lopaki at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, even with compression disabled, my test files were about the same size
> encrypted or not.
>
> Oh!  armored?   will test.
>
>   On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Faramir <faramir.cl at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>> Hash: SHA256
>>
>> Hello!
>>
>> Scott Lambdin escribió:
>> ...
>> > 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
>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
>> Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32)
>> Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
>>
>> iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJJZ8yFAAoJEMV4f6PvczxAA30H/3d26oUhHP0ecGOcEaZI/7I9
>> Urq373GhpHlxvlf9Tj+Akc/qex8l7uMJ6bGap2dX6rXah5oFV681ceJZIf9LYt3Y
>> +Ej/uEGuipq+25cWc4484SfQu6J6k29dhnwVv4E3Zr2+9Wm4d9eVYnpH70lKmbNc
>> xOZ+fEKT8vlu9oM6e9viZEbpmkxgzNKJDC+/mLdxeDC7AAl9PM8x8Md+G07WGutO
>> BO4CAg9Wx3xCPIRXwL9tftpl5wqtZmpJvsCxAKeG7QCjrd8yU2LoRr9IxJGV45gb
>> 0vZo/QXHfIrRb3HedZKVW+6Xp+MJxr6TIfVr+UVbyLwQmUurKF4Rw2HuNRZuZbg=
>> =oKi3
>> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
>>
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