Re: [Metakit] compression and encryption

2003-10-16 Thread Jean-Claude Wippler
Andreas Muegge wrote: the implementation of encryption is something I would like to see Ok, thanks for letting me know (surprising: just two responses so far). I am not sure about compression. If we talk about normal strings I guess you must try it out. Decompression is usually rather fast and

RE: [Metakit] compression and encryption

2003-10-16 Thread Angus Lord
I can see that both would be interesting for my application. Just as a thought, would the lzo algorithm be better than using zlib? It has a far smaller footprint than zlib and is _really_ fast. Cheers Angus ___ metakit mailing list - [EMAIL

Re: [Metakit] compression and encryption

2003-10-16 Thread Jacob Levy
Dont remember if I expressed my opinion already: * Compression: useful for large data, e.g. binary and string, less useful for other types. * Encryption: very useful. * Combination of the two: not sure where I'd use it. --JYL Andreas Muegge wrote: the implementation of encryption is

Re: [Metakit] compression and encryption

2003-10-16 Thread Niki Spahiev
I am using compression already. Python properties combined with sting encode('zlib') handle it transparently to the user. Niki Spahiev ___ metakit mailing list - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.equi4.com/mailman/listinfo/metakit

Re: [Metakit] compression and encryption

2003-10-16 Thread Brian Kelley
I suppose that this falls along the lines of I'll wait to see the implementation (TM). Since these are non-invasive changes to metakit, I'm always happy to see useful features. Here are my current comments with the proposed compression strategy: It seems that using the in-memory

Re: [Metakit] compression and encryption

2003-10-16 Thread Michael Schlenker
Jean-Claude Wippler wrote: Two options not implemented in MK 2.4.9.2, are compression and encryption. compression sounds good encryption done right sounds good too, but if i understand correctly it is only thought for the file stored, not an in memory encryption so data could end up unecrypted