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witty_username on June 28, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: “Should you encrypt or compress first?”

> If you're encrypting a document, then compressing it first may prevent leaks.

I think this is only true if you use a bad encryption algorithm where same plaintext blocks have the same ciphertext.

lisper on June 28, 2016 [–]

Oh, I'm not talking about leaking plaintext, I'm talking about leaking the length of the document.

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