Paranoid

[major at dcd.wa.gov.au]

A nym of no particular repute <nobody at Menudo.UH.EDU> writes:

> Does PGP compress the text before it is encoded?

yes

> Does this allow a cracker to search for the compression's signature
> after every attempt?

There is no "signature". Unix compress(1) leaves a signature but there
is nothing in the math of compression which forces a compression
algorithm to do so.

Major