The encryption part might actually be harmful: for (silly) example, if you encrypt using the Bacon cipher, which turns every letter into five letters all of whi

The encryption part might actually be harmful: for (silly) example, if you encrypt using the Bacon cipher, which turns every letter into five letters all of which are either "a" or "b". :) You'd need to pick an encryption method that doesn't expand the text at all, not even via a header or footer block. Better to stick with bytes generated uniformly at random, in which case you are correct. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon%27s_cipher https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon%27s_cipher