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Re: cypto + compression

To: Stanton McCandlish <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: cypto + compression
From: Eric Watt Forste <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 21 May 93 16:03:07 +0100
Cc: [email protected], slippery@netcom2
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 21 May 93 15:00:12 MDT." <[email protected]>

 
 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                             [email protected]
1800 Market St #243                          San Francisco CA 94102
      "Expectation foils perception."   -- Pamela C. Dean

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