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		arjie on June 29, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “Should you encrypt or compress first?” Because the wire is unsafe.

rpearl on June 30, 2016 [–]

In which case the considerations in the featured article apply entirely to any attacker with access to the wire/transit.

Your original comment makes no sense.

arjie on July 1, 2016 | [–]

No. The considerations in the article apply to certain kinds of input under certain conditions. Those caveats mean it doesn't apply to self-generated text documents encrypted all at once, in general.

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