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From: thom@sea.ieee.org (Thom Henderson)
Newsgroups: comp.compression
Subject: Re: Compression as encryption?
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Date: 19 Jun 91 19:59:00 GMT
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 > It occurred to me that the standard Unix 'compress' utility would make
 > a good encryption tool, used as follows: 

Congratulations.  You have just re-invented ARC password encryption.  <grin> 

 > Is there a catch?  

Hope not.  

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