On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> - the position of gzip in the pipeline was wrong in my view.
>   it came after encryption meaning it was working on somewhat
>   randomized data.  Thus the compression would likely be small.

You don't have to put gzip in the pipeline.  Gpg compresses data by default
(zlib level 6, according to gpg(1)), before doing encryption.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                                                Geert

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