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I believe the literature says that compress before encrypt is less secure, because compression behaves predictably. See CRIME attacks.

• skybrian 7y ago
  But, why compress at all then? It won't do anything. I'm not sure this is a good enough reason to never compress anything.
  • e12e 7y ago
    Maybe they encrypt with rot13. Compression should work on such a "ciphertext"...