Re: [RFC] CryptoAPI & Compression

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Sun Apr 03 2005 - 06:45:56 EST


On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 02:23:42PM +0400, Artem B. Bityuckiy wrote:
>
> It must not. Look at the algoritm closer.

This relies on implementation details within zlib_deflate, which may
or may not be the case.

It should be easy to test though. Just write a user-space program
which does exactly this and feed it something from /dev/urandom.

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