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Encoding vs. Compression vs. Encryption
In what ways does encryption differ from proprietary/secret compression schemes and codecs?
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Is there an existing cryptography algorithm / method that both encrypts AND compresses text?
So I'm trying to find a method of encryption that not only obfuscates text, but also compresses the result.
For example, if I encrypted ninechars, the ideal result ...
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Huffman encoding of hashes
I have a huge list of MD5 hashes, which takes up quite some space. I wonder whether I would achieve (some) compression by encoding the characters (which are A-F 0-9), with Huffman coding. I made a ...
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How secure is this use of Ziv-Lempel encoding?
I'm reading patent application US 20120278897 A1 — “System and method of sort-order preserving tokenization”. Near the bottom they describe their token generation algorithm, which basically involves ...
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