Limits of gnucash

Mike or Penny Novack mpnovack at mtdata.com
Tue Jan 10 16:01:36 EST 2017


On 1/10/2017 10:05 AM, Securenym.net wrote:
> What compression is being used?  I use Apple’s compression plus any intrinsic compression to software.  Different compression algorithms have differing efficiencies and trade offs.  Encryption also changes the relative efficiencies of the algorithms, depending on how the encryption is set up.
>
> Walt
A GOOD encryption algorithm would result in data that was not 
compressible (or barely so). The compressibility of data is inversely 
related to its randomness. Random data is not compressible at all. 
Encrypted data will be at least pseudo-random.

Michael D Novack


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