> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of John Eells
>
> Chase, John wrote:
>
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of John Eells
> >>
> <snip>
>
> >>
> >>Note: Data that is to be processed using the Encryption Facility
> >>Client cannot be created using compression.
> >
> > Now that's an "interesting" limitation. Seems to suggest that the
> > "Encryption Facility ..." can distinguish between a compressed (say,
> > TERSEd or ZIPped) "text file" and, say, a load module or program
> > object. If true, I must wonder why the effort was expended to code
> > such "intelligence" into what otherwise seems a quite useful (and
simple) utility.
> <snip>
>
> It's not really that smart. It would decrypt the
> compressed/encyrpted file...but then uncompressing it would
> be up to you.
I thought that was a "given", as would be compressing it in the first place.
I can't imagine that anybody would seriously think that decryption includes
decompression (how many compression algorithms are there?).
-jc-
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