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[–] tvbusy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 1 year ago

Any good encryption should make data looks random. Looking for patterns in encrypted data is one of the most basic steps to break an encryption. Therefore, good encryption should make data almost uncompressable, as in it's so random that compression does not reduce the size.