India withdraws draft crypto policy
http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/bowing-to-public-pressure-govt-withdraws-draft-encryption-policy/article1-1392348.aspx
Bowing to pressure from the public, the government on
Tuesday withdrew a draft policy that sought to control secured
online communication, including through mass-use social media
and web applications such as WhatsApp and Twitter.
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Only lasted about a day. But something to replace that nightmare will be
forthcoming, and it might not be much better.
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Introducing Brotli: a new compression algorithm for the internet
http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2015/09/introducing-brotli-new-compression.html
While Zopfli is Deflate-compatible, Brotli is a whole
new data format. This new format allows us to get 20-26% higher
compression ratios over Zopfli. In our study 'Comparison of
Brotli, Deflate, Zopfli, LZMA, LZHAM and Bzip2 Compression
Algorithms' we show that Brotli is roughly as fast as zlib's
Deflate implementation. At the same time, it compresses slightly
more densely than LZMA and bzip2 on the Canterbury corpus. The
higher data density is achieved by a 2nd order context modeling,
re-use of entropy codes, larger memory window of past data and
joint distribution codes. Just like Zopfli, the new algorithm is
named after Swiss bakery products. Br?tli means 'small bread' in
Swiss German.
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