[Cryptography] Is there a good algorithm providing both compression and encryption at the same time?

Ben Laurie ben at links.org
Sat May 9 16:47:33 EDT 2015


On 8 May 2015 at 22:23, Bill Frantz <frantz at pwpconsult.com> wrote:
> Probably compression is safe if each source of data is compressed
> separately.

Surely not. Some plaintexts of the same length compress shorter than
others. That gives me a distinguisher. If I have a distinguisher, it
is not "safe".


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