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

[Stefan Reich]

Man, I should not write any postings before morning coffee... I understood
the exact opposite of what you're actually saying... %-|

Anyway, I feel the only sensible way of transparently compressing files is
_before_ encryption, and treating the file as a stream (the node just sees a
stream anyway). I thought this was pretty clear, and I'm a bit puzzled over
the packet compression discussion :-)

Saying encrypted data is "hard" to compress is gross understatement... it's
impossible to compress.

-Stefan

>Stefan Reich (Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 02:52:08PM +0200):
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> > but we're not talking about compressing the packets, but about
compressing
>> > the whole files before inserting them.
>>
>> Why treat packets individually? We know which packets belong to the same
>> file - we can compress files as streams.
>>
>> -Stefan
>
>we actually can't compress files as packets, since, when sending them, they
are
>encrypted, and very hard to compress, thus.


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