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In fact there are not. You can test this out; use PGP to encrypt any file you please, and then use any compression software you like to compress it. You will get no significant compression.
I don't know if there will be any new redundancies or not, but PGP compresses it's output so you would naturally get no further compression. Ben Byer <bbyer@bix.com>
Ben Byer wrote: I don't know if there will be any new redundancies or not, but PGP compresses it's output so you would naturally get no further compression. Dhoh! I should have specified that PGP's built-in compression be turned off. Even without precompressing, encryption destroys almost all the redundancy that compression can take advantage of. Eric Watt Forste arkuat@joes.garage.com 1800 Market St #243 San Francisco CA 94102 "Expectation foils perception." -- Pamela C. Dean
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