Hi
My rationale behind writing this simple utility is as follows: Moving data through a fully encrypted tunnel like SSH is too slow for me, so I use netcat/socat for moving large chunks of data between systems. I don't want the data to be easily identified and reproduced if it is somehow intercepted, though it's also not a major problem if someone goes through the trouble of decrypting it; thus, simple XOR encryption is good enough for my purposes and is also extremely fast. I'm sure someone else will find it useful, and given its minuscule size, it is of negligible cost to include.
I'm somewhat unconvinced that this is useful in many real situations, but how does it compare to using something like "lzop -f" ?
The logic would be that lzo compression is fairly lightweight, however, the vast majority of real data compresses to some extent and so in many cases you will get a further speedup in transmission
I have not tested to see how obfuscated the data would be were it very incompressible... However, the thought occurs that very incompressible data might not fall under the "easily identifiable" category anyway? (kind of by definition)
Good luck Ed W _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
