From: bbyer@BIX.com
Date: Sun, 23 May 93 21:11:53 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: cypto + compression
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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>