• LostXOR@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Encrypted data compresses much worse than non-encrypted data, so it does matter in terms of size.

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      It really does. Apparently-random data can’t be compressed at all, by the pigeonhole principle.

      I mean, you could run it through whatever algorithm for fun, but it won’t accomplish anything.