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Re:SingleHop Are Cheats by kcbanner on Friday September 16, 2011 @11:52AM (#3004939)
That doesn't really fix the problem, what if that random data happened to compress well? The solution is to not compress anything while downloading.
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Re:SingleHop Are Cheats by gojomo on Friday September 16, 2011 @01:41PM (#3005454)
"Random data' [1] will not compress well [2].

[1] high-entropy in any of the usually-available ways

[2] for any compression system actually deployed, as opposed to one contrived to match specifically the 'random' source

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Re:SingleHop Are Cheats by cbr on Friday September 16, 2011 @01:02PM (#3005270)
A large quantity of random data is incredibly unlikely to compress well.
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