On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 10:50:29AM -0800, philo vivero wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 06:24, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> > First, during encryption+compression the compression level is "9".
> > 
> > dump_to_stdout () {
> >     # Encrypt it, compress it, and send it on it's way
> >     ${gpg_prog} --no-tty -q -e -z 9 -r ${gpg_as} -r ${gpg_as_self} 
> > Second I question the wisdom of the order of encrypt then compress (and
> > uncompress/decrypt).
> 
> There's a compression step before or after thie above statement in the
> script?!?! Take it out! The "-z 9" being passed to gnupg here means that
> gnupg itself compresses the data before encrypting it. (gnupg will still
> compress if you leave off "-z 9" just not at such a high compression
> rate).

No, the script contains no separate compression step during encryption.

But there is a separate decompression setp on recovery.
It is done before decryption.

Because of this I assume that the builtin gpg compression is done after
encryption.  Thus my comments suggesting a compression step be added
before pgp encryption and reversal of the pipeline on recovery.

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