cypto + compression

[Eric Watt Forste]

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.
 
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