> > 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. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20010426/3c5fd8c5/attachment.pgp>
