On Wednesday 01 November 2006 15:33, Arno Lehmann wrote:

> >>This sounds like compression should be automatically disabled when
> >>encrypton is enabled. Should be useless anyway as encrypted data should
> >>no longer be compressible.
> >
> > Not if compression happens prior to encryption. :)
>
> Theoretically - yes, but I'm quite sure that encryption usually also
> compresses data. This is completely unverified and refers to encryption
> programs that are rather outdated by now, though...
>
> But I suppose you could inform us if encryption in Bacula also
> compresses :-)

Landon, what is your take on this?  Since you wrote the code you seem to be 
the best source on whether the openssl functions you are using compress data.

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