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Re: [openpgp] Disabling compression in OpenPGP

Hauke Laging <mailinglisten@hauke-laging.de> Sun, 13 April 2014 22:30 UTC

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Subject: Re: [openpgp] Disabling compression in OpenPGP
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Am Do 20.03.2014, 07:53:22 schrieb Nicholas Cole:

> There are many cases where the size of the message reveals something
> about the content, compression or no compression.

Would it help to have to possibility to add a certain amount of 
(ignored) random data to an encrypted packet?

In that case an OpenPGP application could – regardless of compression – 
be configured (in appropriate situations) to create packets which e.g.

a) have a certain minimum length

b) have a length which is a multiple of a block size (e.g. 1K, 2K but 
not 1234 bytes)


Hauke
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