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stock_toaster
on May 8, 2019
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I believe the literature says that compress before encrypt is less secure, because compression behaves predictably. See CRIME attacks.
skybrian
on May 8, 2019
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But, why compress at all then? It won't do anything.
I'm not sure this is a good enough reason to never compress anything.
e12e
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Maybe they encrypt with rot13. Compression should work on such a "ciphertext"...
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