On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 11:05:52AM -0400, Chris Anderson wrote:
> On Fri, 4 May 2001, Oskar Sandberg wrote:
< > 
> > In which case one could question whether we need a DataLength field. It is
> > a orthogonality verses layering issue, though in this case I think
> > layering wins out...
> > 
> 
> Doesn't power of 2 data sizes waste 25% of bandwidth & storage?  That's
> costly.

Only for data that is atomic, we expect that most (large) data will be
split into parts. Then it is only 25% of the size modulo the split size
that is wasted.

The advantages in fighting traffic analysis make it more than worth it.

-- 
'DeCSS would be fine. Where is it?'
'Here,' Montag touched his head.
'Ah,' Granger smiled and nodded.

Oskar Sandberg
md98-osa at nada.kth.se

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