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NODE 650b5372Paranoid major@dcd.wa.gov.auFri, 29 Oct 93 03:43:21 PDT 
A nym of no particular repute <nobody@Menudo.UH.EDU> writes:

> Does PGP compress the text before it is encoded?

yes

> Does this allow a cracker to search for the compression's signature
> after every attempt?

There is no "signature". Unix compress(1) leaves a signature but there
is nothing in the math of compression which forces a compression
algorithm to do so.

Major