On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:17, jb...@infimark.com said: > By the way, I did use your recommended command string and got the same > result. I suspect there is some kind of option that is required so that gpg > knows that the output file should be created as an archive type file.
No. gpg does not know anything about the structure of the data to encrypt. It encrypts and later decrypts the data verbatim. So your problem must be somewhere else. The above is not 100% correct: gpg looks into the data to see whether it is a zip or bzip compressed file and in that case disables its own (OpenPGP specified) compression. That compression is also 100 % transparent to the data; this feature is only used to save a bit of processing time if data is already compressed. Salam-Shalom, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Auschnahme regelt ein Bundeschgesetz. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
