- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 19:29:23 +0000
- To: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
- cc: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>, Amos Jeffries <squid3@treenet.co.nz>, Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie>, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
-------- In message <20150512192556.GM6738@1wt.eu>, Willy Tarreau writes: >I would not be surprized if >people who invent crypto algorithms would also be able to invent filters >for their algorithms that help to compress the data (or invent the two at >once in order to satisfy both purposes). There have been crypto algorithms which used key-bits to influence a pre-compression, but I think the consensus was that it was better to use a good (general) compression and a good (general) encryption. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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