Randy McMurchy wrote: > Hi all, > > Just a topic which really doesn't need discussion on this list, however, > one item is worth mention (question to Bruce). > > I just updated Anduin with the new CrackLib files. I find it interesting > how much better (and, of course, faster) Gzip compresses text files than > Bzip. > > The CrackLib word list compressed with Gzip is 4.4 MB, compressed with > Bzip it is 5.6 MB. > > I'm leaving the larger, Bzipped version on Anduin for consistency sake, > though it seems wrong. > > Bruce? >
In general, (with English text, IIRC) the bzip2 algorithm will usually yield a smaller file at the cost of a slower run. However, the theory is clear that you can always construct an input file that will trun that around. I guess the cracklib seed files are just like that. I shouldn't be necessary to change policy. There are plenty of other algorithms about as well, that give different trade-offs (e.g LZO, UCL, etc) I always wondered why there wasn't a wrapper script that just 'did the right thing' with compression. R. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
