Debunking the PGP backdoor myth for good.

Perry E. Metzger perry at piermont.com
Wed Aug 30 10:35:58 EDT 2006


"Ondrej Mikle" <ondrej.mikle at gmail.com> writes:
> I conjecture that for every permutation on 1..N there exists a
> function that compresses the permutation into a "short"
> representation.

Provably false, indeed, trivially proven false.

In other messages you back off and say you just meant some kinds of
structured data can be compressed. Well, yes, but so what? We know
that already.

Perry

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