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- Subject: Re: [ANN] NumberScript -- a little language that compiles to Lua
- From: Coda Highland <chighland@...>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 10:16:09 -0500
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Enrico Colombini <erix@erix.it> wrote:
> On 25/06/2012 16.28, Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
>>
>> Encripted files have exactly the same information content of the
>> original, but usually they do not compress at all.
>
>
> You're right, of course. But do not commonly used encription systems add
> pseudorandom information on purpose? (I confess my limited knowledge here).
All encryption systems do. An encryption key is a piece of data that,
to anyone who doesn't possess it, may as well be random.
/s/ Adam
