Re: NSA and crypto

tomstdenis@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Douglas A. Gwyn wrote:
Actually compression does improve security, when the plaintext
has a substantial amount of redundancy (as most do). There is
This is flawed reasoning. If the plaintext has no entropy ... it isn't
a secret. ...

You totally didn't understand what I was saying.
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