GPG 1.4.9 compressing option

[swarna kembayee]

Dear Team,

Thank you very much, in advance for your time and support.
I have 3 questions which I would appreciate help on....

My environment has GPG 1.4.9 on Solaris 10 OS.

Question 1 - I am using gpg to encrypt a gzip file. Is it wrong to do this
( file/block corruption or ) ?

for example my command order is

1. gzip sourcefile.txt -- output is sourcefile.txt.gz

2. gpg --encrypt --recipient fddf at w.com sourcefile.txt.gz -- output is
sourcefile.txt.gz.gpg -- I am able to decrypt and uncompress and read the
file

I am not sure if gpg also compresses by default. I used the --verbose
option along with --compress-algo , however the compression state is
omitted from the verbose detail.

I also find --compress-algo <1,2,3> work , higher numbers 4 and above throw
an error - 'gpg: selected compression algorithm is invalid'

Question 2 - How to know if GPG is indeed compressing and what's the
default compression value ?

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Question 3 - How to find the default settings of my gpg like character set
, compression value etc.  I have not configured anything in in the gpg.conf
file

Best Regards,
Swarna Kembayee
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