>>>>> "Marcus" == Marcus Williams <marcus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: [...] >> If compression is used (like in bz2aespipe script), then errors may >> propagate to much larger set of data. Decompressors operate in GIGO >> mode, garbage in - garbage out, and you may even get a bonus SIGSEGV >> if you are lucky. Marcus> So compress stuff before you put it on the loop presumably. ... Well, you should always compress before encrypting. Encrypted data is supposed to look fairly random, and hence should have extremely bad compression ratios. Perhaps Jari is referring to the fact that if you're compressing, then the 16+ bytes that you lost of compressed data, since it is compressed, represents maybe 32+ bytes of real data. -- Hubert Chan <hubert@xxxxxxxxx> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred. - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
