[Trisquel-users] Re : Which is more secure, peazip or Gnupg?

[lcerf]

I have no experience with PeaZip but I imagine (and can be wrong!) its  
encryption feature is made for a totally different scenario than GPG's.

Isn't PeaZip's encryption based on a passphrase that must somehow (a  
GPG-encrypted mail?!) be send to whoever needs to open the archive? On the  
contrary, with GPG, I believe you encrypt the message (any message: a file,  
compressed or not, an email, etc.) with the public key of a specific user who  
is the only one who will be able to read it (nothing more needs to be send to  
her). I also guess that the encryption that specifically targets a compressed  
format must be faster. And in scenario where several users needs to open the  
archive, they can all share the passphrase for one single encryption.