[sllug-members]: Encrypted backup tapes

[Andrew GIlmore]

On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 14:06 -0700, James Knowles wrote:
> > ...  compression as a way to strengthen a cipher ... 
> 
> Absolutely.
> 
> The only reason to perform compression on backups is to, well,
> /compress/, i.e. squeeze more onto a tape.

Exactly, although I believe compressing before encryption may be a waste
of time, since as other folks have commented, many commandline
encryption tools compress _in the process of encryption!_

Andrew