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

Given the real risk of CRIME attacks, are there "compression aware" encryption algorithms?

zielmicha on June 28, 2016 [–]

I don't think it is possible - it's hard to imagine an encryption algorithm that doesn't preserve content length.

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