On Wednesday, Aug 20, 2003, at 00:32 US/Eastern, Arthur Chan wrote:
Well, my eyes did glaze over somewhere betw thermodynamics and mobile
perpetuum ;-)
So does this mean that if I work in a less sophisticated infrastructure
where only 56kbps ppp dialup is available, I can get some incremental gain
by zipping it up before encrypting it ? [yes/no]
Yes. ...And the larger the plaintext, the larger your gain, percentage-wise. (simply because larger plaintext files *tend* to shrink by a larger percentage when compressed)
Caveats ?
Both compression and encryption are computationally expensive operations. Don't skimp on the CPU for this machine.
[....]
Best~ -dsp
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