Eu me deparo com problemas se fizer isso ou é perfeitamente seguro criptografar arquivos tão grandes?
O limite de tamanho do arquivo depende do sistema operacional.
--max-output n
This option sets a limit on the number of bytes that will be
generated when processing a file. Since OpenPGP supports
various levels of compression, it is possible that the plain-
text of a given message may be significantly larger than the
original OpenPGP message. While GnuPG works properly with
such messages, there is often a desire to set a maximum file
size that will be generated before processing is forced to
stop by the OS limits. Defaults to 0, which means "no
limit".
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