[Cialug] dumb gpg question

James Shoemaker james at dhlake.com
Fri Jul 22 10:03:46 CDT 2005


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Nathan C. Smith wrote:
> James,
> 
> Out of curiosity, would that double the size of the file, or is there GPG
> juju-magic that prevents that?
> 

	There is juju-magic, remember that they generate a random key, encrypt
the body using it, then encrypt the key with the public key.  So it will
get slightly larger, but not dramatically.

James
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