Re: Calculating Buffer Size

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Calculating Buffer Size
\ Adam Schreiber (14 Jul 2006)
. \ David Shaw (14 Jul 2006)

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Subject:	Re: Calculating Buffer Size
Group:	Gnupg-users
From:	David Shaw
Date:	14 Jul 2006

On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 04:19:36PM -0400, Adam Schreiber wrote:
> Is there a way to calculate the unencrypted or unsigned size of an ASCII
> armored encrypted message given the size of the message and the length
> of the key?

Yes, but not if compression is turned on (as it is by default).
Factors are key size, key algorithm, and number of recipients to the
message.

David

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