On Tue, 11 Aug 2015 16:16, phill(_at_)hallambaker(_dot_)com said:
every option. If you are going to sign a 1Gb file then you are going to
need multiple trips through the digest function. Now there is of course a
This is not an option for OpenPGP! OpenPGP has been carefully designed
to allow its use in a pipe ("online" in current parlance). Any signing
function which requires multiple passes over the signed data is useless.
(I heard of encrypted(+signed) backups in the TiB range.)
Shalom-Salam,
Werner
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