Hi!
just a short note: The reason why we have compresion algorithms in
OpenPGP are mainly out of tradition. On a Unix system the use of
specialized tools is the way to go; e.g. gpg for encryption and bzip2
for compressing.
If you want to compress your data with a different algorithm you may
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On 1/21/06, Johan Wevers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If speed isn't an issue, why would anyone prefer rar over bzip2? Bzip2
> compresses much better than rar anyway, although it's slow.
Bzip2 does not compress better than RAR or LZMA, at least with my test corpus.
See http://www.malayter.com/com
Ryan Malayter wrote:
>In any case, though, such slow-but-compact algorithms are really only
>useful for archival purposes.
If speed isn't an issue, why would anyone prefer rar over bzip2? Bzip2
compresses much better than rar anyway, although it's slow.
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ir. J.C.A. Wevers // Physics
On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 09:22:36AM -0700, Kurt Fitzner wrote:
> David Shaw wrote:
>
> > In fact, BZIP2 was added pretty much for archival purposes:
> > http://www.imc.org/ietf-openpgp/mail-archive/msg04624.html
> >
> > I wouldn't be against LZMA if it was significantly better than BZIP2.
>
> My
David Shaw wrote:
> In fact, BZIP2 was added pretty much for archival purposes:
> http://www.imc.org/ietf-openpgp/mail-archive/msg04624.html
>
> I wouldn't be against LZMA if it was significantly better than BZIP2.
My understanding of the reason behind compression in OpenPGP is that it
was less
On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 11:30:15PM +1030, Alphax wrote:
> > LZMA seems to be notably[1] faster/better than BZIP2, which has made
> > it into the standard so I wouldn't immediately rule out its
> > suitability for OpenPGP.
> >
>
> How well was LZMA known when BZIP2 made it in? Why was BZIP2 includ
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 04:49:11PM -0600, Ryan Malayter wrote:
> On 1/20/06, David Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > It's always possible for someone to add a nonstandard algorithm, but
> > if you really want a particular algorithm, it's healthier to get the
> > OpenPGP working group to add it of
Roscoe wrote:
> On 1/21/06, Ryan Malayter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>The RAR compression algorithm proprietary and closed source, so it is
>>not likely to make it into any standards. RARlabs has refused for
>>years to allow anyone else to make RAR encoders (although they exist
>>in violation
LZMA seems to be notably[1] faster/better than BZIP2, which has made
it into the standard so I wouldn't immediately rule out its
suitability for OpenPGP.
That said I don't much think it should be included. It could *replace*
BZIP2 but replacing BZIP2 with LZMA would break backwards
compatibility a
On 1/20/06, David Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It's always possible for someone to add a nonstandard algorithm, but
> if you really want a particular algorithm, it's healthier to get the
> OpenPGP working group to add it officially.
The RAR compression algorithm proprietary and closed source,
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 10:05:26PM +0530, Nicky wrote:
> The current version of GnuPG I have supports only three compression
> algorithms viz: ZIP, ZLIB and BZIP2
> Is there a way to direct GnuPG to use some other algorithm besides
> these? for example RAR (http://rarlabs.com/)...
No. GPG support
The current version of GnuPG I have supports only three compression
algorithms viz: ZIP, ZLIB and BZIP2
Is there a way to direct GnuPG to use some other algorithm besides
these? for example RAR (http://rarlabs.com/)...
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Nix.
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