Yves Goergen wrote:
> 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?
As used in SSL/TLS and many other kernel and userland things, yes.
> And
> doesn't an ideally encrypted string have a maximal (or was it
> minimal?...) enthropy so that it cannot be compressed any further?
Either. Both. Whichever. Yes.
> Or
> have I missed something between theory and reality...
>
Not in the last many years, no.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zlib
Bill
