RE: SSH and compression
I guess it depends on the encryption algorithm used. DES should compress
well if represented as a stream of hex values. On the other hand you can
always represent binary
data as hex.
-----Original Message-----
From: Barry Michels [mailto:bmichels@barrymichels.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 10:37 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: SSH and compression
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From: <alwyn@smart.com.ph>
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Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 10:28 PM
Subject: RE: SSH and compression
> I might be misguided but I find it interesting that compression seems to
> look for patterns
> in data in order to reduce the size, where as encryption's goal is to make
> the data
> devoid of all distinguishable patterns?
>
I guess the question becomes, what comes first? If the data is compressed
first, then encryption shouldn't be any easier or harder. If the data is
encrypted first, then compression shouldn't work very well since there's
probably less compressable patterns. Or maybe I'm wrong and should go back
to lurking till a subject I do know about comes up...
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