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Re: Encryption, compression
2007-10-30 17:44:14
Brian Cuttler wrote:
Amanda users,
I may have missed it in the mailing list... I know that
encryption came available in 2.5.0, either server side
or client side, or the channel (though I think encrypting
on the client provides an encrypted channel by default, true ?)
Anyway, I was wondering and haven't seen... how to encryption
and compression play against one another. Some data compresses
very well, some doesn't, If you are encrypting, doesn't that
tend to cause the data to be less compressable ?
We are looking an encryption on the tape for one of our amanda
servers, just want to sort of know what to expect when I upgrade
the client and server and turn on encryption, compression is
already enabled.
hmm, I just saw something on this. Don't remember where, and I deleted it.
It's interesting that when you google "compressing encrypted data", you
get on the first page
A wikipedia entry claiming you cannot compress encrypted data
A storagemojo guru saying that it is a mathematical faux pas to say
that encrypted data can be compressed
An EECS Berkeley and IEEE Publication detailing the mathematics of
compressing encrypted data (it works)
(7 of the 10 links on the first page were to copies of this
paper)
I think I recall that the item I saw earlier indicated significant
compression of encrypted data.
I'm going to make the wild speculation that particular results will
depend on your encryption keys and your compression methods as well as
your original data. That said, the bottom line is always real world
tests. Therefore, if no one comes up with detailed examples and data, I
would suggest just doing it and recording the results. Choose your
methods and your data and then make a results table with the size of the
original data, the size compressed, the size compressed and then
encrypted, the size encrypted, and the size encrypted and then
compressed. Send it back to the list with the algorithms, methodology
and results.
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