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Re: cypto + compression

To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: cypto + compression
From: bbyer@BIX.com
Date: Sun, 23 May 1993 20:37:02 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: arkuat@joes.garage.com

In-Reply-To: <199305212303.AA21876@joes.GARAGE.COM>
> 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>

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