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Re: cypto + compression

To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: cypto + compression
From: Eric Watt Forste <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 23 May 93 23:02:50 +0100
Cc: [email protected]
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 23 May 93 20:37:02 EDT." <[email protected]> Sun, 23 May 1993 20:37:02 -0400 (EDT)

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

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