Chris Little wrote:
> ...
> > I had to remove tons of locked modules to get the CD image
> > built. We need to do something about that soon. I tried to
> > keep at least one module for every language we support so as
> > not to ruin our statistics :)
>
> I hope the heretical stuff & Gill were the first to go. :) I tried
> compressing a locked module (using mod2zmod with not cipherkey) and it
> failed, but once we get this working everything should be a lot smaller.
> I'd thought the cipher would increase randomness greatly, but the
> modules still ZIP like plaintext.
In general, encrypted text should not compress well at all (since there is
little repeated information). The compression should be inserted before
the encryption. I wonder why they still zip that well?
Paul