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[Jeff C. Glover]

In article <architec.668336357 at cutmcvax.cs.curtin.edu.au> architec at cutmcvax.cs.curtin.edu.au (Phil Dench) writes:
>As far as I know, compress before crypting gives a better level of
>protection (thats what I do anyway).

Wouldn't the "compress" magic number (first longword of the file) give
a crypt-breaker a fairly good headstart on the rest of the contents?

Jeff
jeffg at loki.asd.sgi.com