Truncated file in GPG?

From: Charles (test524_at_comcast.net)
Date: 06/19/04

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    Hello all,

    I'm running GPG version 1.0.6 on Debian stable for the first time.
    Kernel version is 2.4.18. I'm trying to perform a relatively simple
    task: encrypt a big MS Outlook mail archive file so that only I can
    decrypt it. I created a key for myself, and encrypted the file with

    gpg -e -r Charles mail.pst

    mail.pst is a 116MB file.

    The resulting mail.pst.gpg is 80MB. Something is clearly wrong. Though
    I'm aware GPG has compression, PST is already a pretty compressed
    format. Doing gpg -d to decrypt gave me back a file that was about 81MB
    -- far smaller than the original.

    charles@compute1:/files/Work$ gpg -e -r Charles mail.pst
    charles@compute1:/files/Work$ ls -l
    total 200208
    -r-------- 1 charles charles 122470400 May 2 22:11 mail.pst
    -rw-r--r-- 1 charles charles 82329455 Jun 18 21:41 mail.pst.gpg

    What's going on here? I'm running on a 667MHz P3 with 128MB RAM.

    Any help most appreciated.

    Thanks,

    Charles. 

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