Re: [freenet-devl] integrating zlib compression into freenet

[Scott G. Miller]

> 
> er... yeah... I knew the data was encrypted. I didn't realize that the 
> encryption rendered the data mostly random. I suppose that makes sense, 
Yeah, thats what encryption does, make it indistinguishable from random
noise without the key.

> recognizable patterns can't be good for security. I guess the only way to 
> do it then would be to compress that data prior to encryption. This would 
> have the added benefit of reducing the size of file in datastores as well.
>   Of course this would not be a backwards compatible change. It would still 
> be beneficial to have freenet nodes automagically zlib compress files 
> prior to insertion. The other problem would be that the algorithm can't be 
> changed in the future without breaking freenet.

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