Re: SSH and compression
At 2002-06-27T02:42:31Z, alwyn@smart.com.ph writes:
> 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.
The problem with that is that hex encoding radically increases the size of
the message, so any compression will be packing of the extra bits that
weren't included in the original message.
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Kirk Strauser
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