alt Hacker NewsCompress then encrypt is not an option because your encryption is broken if it can be compressed at all. Mathematically it's a near certainty that the compression would increase the file size when given an encrypted input.
Compress then encrypt is not an option because your encryption is broken if it can be compressed at all. Mathematically it's a near certainty that the compression would increase the file size when given an encrypted input.
If you are saying that good encryption ought to make the result incompressible, then I agree with you.