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I’ve got a trial version of the PGP Commanline 10.3 software, and in testing it takes around 5 hours to perform encryption for a 30 GB file.

I wanted to ask if this is the performance we should expect, or if the trial version has some limitations that make it slower?

I noticed the encryption was using TripleDES, rather than AES 256. I tried using the --remove-preferred-cipher switch to try and force it to use AES, but it returned an error saying ‘no match for argument “TripleDES”. I’m not sure if this is relevant for asymmetric encryption, or if it’s just for symmetric. 

Trial software is fully functional. It is never slowed down, so the speed you're getting is correct and not because you don't have a licensed version.