[freenet-devl] integrating zlib compression into freenet

[Tavin Cole]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 12:06:52AM -0700, Aaron Voisine wrote:
> > All the data on freenet is inserted after going through a round of
> > encryption and thus having the protocol do any compression is a waste of
> > resources becuase compression of the encrypted stream in most cases won't
> > compress it.
> >
> > -Mathew
> 
> 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,