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How can you possibly compress encrypted data? An ideal cipher should produce output indistinguishable from randomness, which is inherently difficult (read: near
by doomrobo 12y ago
How can you possibly compress encrypted data? An ideal cipher should produce output indistinguishable from randomness, which is inherently difficult (read: near impossible) to compress.
- kelseyhightower 12y agoHopefully we corrected the docs and the comments here help, but we don't encrypt before we compress. We compress before we encrypt.