From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hubert Chan Subject: Re: The situation at hand and in the future Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 13:13:50 -0400 Sender: news Message-ID: <8765adltwx.fsf@uhoreg.ca> References: <20040527200127.GS4990@nysv.org> <200405272105.i4RL5LDh026210@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <40B6670D.9060408@slaphack.com> <20040528063324.GT4990@nysv.org> <40B89C9C.5050307@slaphack.com> <20040529154917.GW4990@nysv.org> <40B919DF.3040408@slaphack.com> <20040530122713.GX4990@nysv.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com >>>>> "Markus" =3D=3D Markus T=F6rnqvist writes: [...] Markus> Maybe there is some way of doing the compression after and Markus> before encryption and decryption, yes. Note that if you want to do encryption and compression, you must do compression first, and then encryption. When you encrypt, you end up with what looks like random data, which typically has very bad compression characteristics (i.e. your file size is more likely to grow than to shrink). --=20 Hubert Chan - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred.