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How easy is it to tell encrypted and compressed material apart? There would be little structure in both, I think.
by tormeh 11y ago
How easy is it to tell encrypted and compressed material apart? There would be little structure in both, I think.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoYou're right, I forgot about that. Since you brought it up, I wonder if encryption and compression aren't both instances of a common mathematical phenomena. They seem very similar to each other.
- naveen99 11y agoNo. You can have a general purpose encryption algorithm , but not a general compression algorithm. Encryption generally requires increasing data size. Compression requires decreasing data size and is not possible in the general case.