Curtis Poe [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *> *>If a compression tool leaves large patterns in the data, it's a poor *>compression tool. You can read more about this here: *>http://perl.plover.com/Huffman/huffman.html.
Compression reduces entropy which, if used before encryption, can make the decryption even more difficult due to less redundancy to get a hook into. Since we agree I think I misparsed your original message :) http://project.honeynet.org/scans/scan16/som/som39/final1.htm is a pretty interesting analysis of an ecrypted file even if it is known that it is encrypted at the outset. e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]