Re: [RFC] CryptoAPI & Compression

Artem B. Bityuckiy
2005-04-03T15:25:37Z

Herbert Xu wrote:
> This relies on implementation details within zlib_deflate, which may
> or may not be the case.
>
> It should be easy to test though. Just write a user-space program
> which does exactly this and feed it something from /dev/urandom.
>
Well, Herbert, you're right. In case of non-compressible data things
are bad. I'll continue investigating this.