[485] in Cypherpunks
Re: cypto + compression
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Watt Forste)
Fri May 21 19:15:43 1993
To: Stanton McCandlish <anton@hydra.UNM.EDU>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com, slippery@netcom2.toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 21 May 93 15:00:12 MDT."
Date: Fri, 21 May 93 16:03:07 +0100
From: Eric Watt Forste <arkuat@joes.garage.com>
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 arkuat@joes.garage.com
1800 Market St #243 San Francisco CA 94102
"Expectation foils perception." -- Pamela C. Dean
