Re: [RFC] CryptoAPI & Compression

From: Artem B. Bityuckiy
Date: Sun Apr 03 2005 - 10:28:10 EST


Herbert Xu wrote:
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.

Well, Herbert, you're right. In case of non-compressible data things
are bad. I'll continue investigating this.

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Best Regards,
Artem B. Bityuckiy,
St.-Petersburg, Russia.
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