copyright and data havens

[Roy M. Silvernail]

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In list.cypherpunks, asgaard at 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 at 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)

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