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Re:Flutter: a Portable UI Framework for Mobile, Web, Embedde... by stock_toaster on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @01:44AM (#19856162)
I believe the literature says that compress before encrypt is less secure, because compression behaves predictably. See CRIME attacks.
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Re:Flutter: a Portable UI Framework for Mobile, Web, Embedde... by skybrian on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @03:30AM (#19856640)
But, why compress at all then? It won't do anything.

I'm not sure this is a good enough reason to never compress anything.

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Re:Flutter: a Portable UI Framework for Mobile, Web, Embedde... by e12e on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @05:38PM (#19863233)
Maybe they encrypt with rot13. Compression should work on such a "ciphertext"...
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