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Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple"

Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> Tue, 17 March 2015 11:21 UTC

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Subject: Re: [openpgp] "OpenPGP Simple"
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On Mon, 16 Mar 2015 22:30, dshaw@jabberwocky.com said:

> A partial length is needed to handle content as a stream - say some program that generates gigabytes of data (like a backup).  Something large enough that you really don't want to have to buffer the whole thing before encrypting it.

And to support > 4GiB files on systems without LFS support.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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