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List:       firewalls-gc
Subject:    Re: Compression is useful - but for security, not
From:       Julian Assange <proff () suburbia ! net>
Date:       1996-01-03 11:34:10
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> 1) Compression aids performance. It does not aid security (at best is SBO).

Not so! Compressed plain text, which is then ciphered is several orders
of magnitude harder to break (depending on the compression scheme and attack).

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