Steve D'Aprano wrote:
- Encrypted data looks very much like random noise.
There's actually a practical use for that idea. If you can feed the output of an encryption algorithm through a compressor and make it smaller, it means there is a cryptographic weakness in the algorithm that could potentially be exploited. Good encryption algorithms produce output that looks almost completely random to anyone who doesn't know how to decrypt it. -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
