From: Eric Watt Forste <arkuat@joes.garage.com>
Date: Sun, 23 May 93 22:58:48 PDT
To: bbyer@BIX.COM
Subject: Re: cypto + compression
In-Reply-To: <9305232037.memo.36584@BIX.com>
Message-ID: <199305240602.AA17283@joes.GARAGE.COM>
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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