Because I usually think about encryption long before I think about compression; the latter's a bit of an afterthought. Ain't the most logical answer in the wor

Because I usually think about encryption long before I think about compression; the latter's a bit of an afterthought. Ain't the most logical answer in the world, and if I planned from the outset to both compress and encrypt then I'd do it in that order, but compression usually doesn't cross my mind for archival (whereas encryption is pretty much the default for any data I have that's worth archiving).