[516] in Cypherpunks
Re: cypto + compression
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bbyer@BIX.com)
Mon May 24 00:20:03 1993
Date: Sun, 23 May 1993 20:37:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: bbyer@BIX.com
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Cc: arkuat@joes.garage.com
X-Cosy-To: cypherpunks@toad.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>
