In Part 1 we took a look at compression and encryption of text data with the aim of illustrating why compression should be done prior to encryption. A natural follow up is to try similar things on binary data and see what we find.
Friday, August 30, 2013
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Encryption, Compression and Randomness - Part 1
One often comes across
situations where data has to be compressed for size reduction and also encrypted for security. But should you first
compress and then encrypt ? Or should it be done in reverse i.e. encrypt and then compress ?
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