On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 02:48:00PM +0200, Hadmut Danisch wrote: > It can be easily shown that there is no lossless > compression method which can effectively compress every possible > input.
Even more simply, if such a method existed, you could recursively apply it to its output and compress every message as one bit. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
