> It is, of course, trivial to prove that anything with arbitrary length > input and fixed length output is not reversible. I missed the rest of > this discussion though :-) > > Cheers, > > Ben.
Nonsense. See US patent 5,533,051 (Compression of Random Data) and 5,488,364 (Recursive Data Compression). Basically, you separate the ones from the zeroes and compress them independently. DS ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]