cypto + compression

Eric Watt Forste arkuat at joes.garage.com
Fri May 21 15:59:10 PDT 1993


 
 Stanton McCandlish wrote:
 
  OK well if you encrypt a compressed file, there are bound to be lots more
  new redundencies created in the encryption process
 
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.

Eric Watt Forste                             arkuat at joes.garage.com
1800 Market St #243                          San Francisco CA 94102
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