[48438] in Cypherpunks
Re: "Concryption" Prior Art
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Stewart)
Mon Jan 29 03:33:41 1996
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 00:32:19 -0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
>>However the Con-cryption patent covers first compressing, then
>>encrypting.
>
>Isn't that how PGP does its thing (first compress the data and then feed it
>into the Encryption Stage)? PGP is prior art in-and-of-itself.
Peter Wayner posted that the "new" thing about the way they do it is
that it saves time by combining the steps. But I think I've seen
approximately the same done with arithmetic-coding compression?
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