How to NOT gnutar files during encryption?

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Wed Jul 19 12:43:41 CEST 2017


On Tue, 18 Jul 2017 23:30, gpg at mdsresource.net said:

> Further investigation reveals that Kleopatra is gnuTARring the ZIP file
> prior to encryption.

That should only happen when you select multipe files or a directory.
This invokes the pgp-zip method of encrypting multiple files.  Despite
the name it is not ZIP but USTAR format (which any tar implementation
can handle).


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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