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Why is ciphertext from low entropy plaintext not compressible?
This comes following a discussion with a colleague.
My plaintext file plain consists of a about 100,000 lines of "all work and
no play...". It's size is: 2.2 MB.
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Seeking special-use fingerprinting/hashing algorithm
For a project I wonder if there exists some kind of fixed-size checksumming/fingerprinting function in which based on this fingerprint given data block 1, it is easy to generate more data blocks that ...