[517] in Cypherpunks
Re: cypto + compression
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Watt Forste)
Mon May 24 02:06:07 1993
To: bbyer@BIX.COM
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 23 May 93 20:37:02 EDT."
Date: Sun, 23 May 93 23:02:50 +0100
From: Eric Watt Forste <arkuat@joes.garage.com>
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 arkuat@joes.garage.com
1800 Market St #243 San Francisco CA 94102
"Expectation foils perception." -- Pamela C. Dean
