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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>
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
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