Re: [exim] tls compression

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Author: Yves Goergen
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To: David Saez Padros
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Subject: Re: [exim] tls compression
On 16.02.2006 21:09 (+0100), David Saez Padros wrote:
> does exim use compression on tls connections ?


Isn't compression an elementary part of encryption, to avoid data
redundancy and make cracking the encryption unnecessarily easy? And
doesn't an ideally encrypted string have a maximal (or was it
minimal?...) enthropy so that it cannot be compressed any further? Or
have I missed something between theory and reality...

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