-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In list.cypherpunks, asgaard@sos.sll.se writes:
(by the way, how long might it take to IDEA-encrypt a 2 MB .zip file? I never tried)
Me, neither. Let's find out.... [1] d:\doom>dir tt.zip Volume in drive D is unlabeled Serial number is 0000:13FD Directory of d:\doom\tt.zip tt.zip 2292723 1-18-95 22:06 2,292,723 bytes in 1 file(s) 2,293,760 bytes allocated 4,853,760 bytes free [1] d:\doom>timer^pgp +armor=off +compress=off +textmode=off -c tt.zip ^ timer Timer 1 on: 22:16:16 Pretty Good Privacy(tm) 2.6.2 - Public-key encryption for the masses. (c) 1990-1994 Philip Zimmermann, Phil's Pretty Good Software. 11 Oct 94 Uses the RSAREF(tm) Toolkit, which is copyright RSA Data Security, Inc. Distributed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Export of this software may be restricted by the U.S. government. Current time: 1995/01/19 04:16 GMT You need a pass phrase to encrypt the file. Enter pass phrase: Enter same pass phrase again: Just a moment... Ciphertext file: tt.pgp Timer 1 off: 22:18:42 Elapsed: 0:02:26.05 '+textmode=off' is probably overkill, since PGP recognizes the non-text content. But my config.txt has armor and compress turned on. Compressing almost doubled the time to encrypt, and armor gave me 39 *.asc files. - -- Roy M. Silvernail -- roy@cybrspc.mn.org will do just fine, thanks. "Does that not fit in with your plans?" -- Mr Wiggen, of Ironside and Malone (Monty Python) PGP public key available upon request (send yours) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.1 iQCVAwUBLx3pkBvikii9febJAQFfgwP+MkpU2xv9zUPyYIYtzvsTUzSSdjcVi4Dd 8PW8AmVFCu2xHI0Zce8CCh3/i+ZMK15E6xvoFdESwS3mkz9DIBZZ/JfyPu0kQ4Lc H76HHoBQNyW00K4Alzfa1rkvyiot8j3KjagpOcCazMlCsKfbZ/xa8PSt8ae8H2k5 RpoZ3o8H87k= =FGL8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----