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From: Pascal Schmidt <der.eremit@email.de>
To: Guillaume@Lacote.name
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Using compression before encryption in device-mapper
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 17:02:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1BDluf-00007s-PB@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1KTfJ-5gK-25@gated-at.bofh.it>

On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 16:10:20 +0200, you wrote in linux.kernel:

> Actually (see my reply to Timothy Miller) I really want to do "compression" 
> even if it does not reduce space: it is a matter of growing the per-bit 
> entropy rather than to gain space (see http://jsam.sourceforge.net).

How is the per-bit entropy higher when the same amount of data (and
thus entropy on that data) is sometimes contained in *more* bits?

I can see the argument if data is really compressed, because then more
bits than would normally fit into, say, a sector, contribute to the
entropy of the final sector.

-- 
Ciao,
Pascal

       reply	other threads:[~2004-04-14 15:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1KykU-4VD-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <1KPvh-26S-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <1KSMw-4P1-13@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]     ` <1KTfJ-5gK-25@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-04-14 15:02       ` Pascal Schmidt [this message]
2004-04-14 15:25         ` Guillaume Lacôte
2004-04-14 19:29           ` Pascal Schmidt
2004-04-13 15:44 Guillaume Lacôte
2004-04-13 16:57 ` Timothy Miller
2004-04-14  6:48   ` Guillaume Lacôte
2004-04-13 17:45 ` Jörn Engel
2004-04-13 19:42   ` Ville Herva
2004-04-14  6:54   ` Guillaume Lacôte
2004-04-14  9:43     ` Jörn Engel
2004-04-14 10:02       ` Guillaume Lacôte
2004-04-14 11:25         ` Jörn Engel
2004-04-14 12:44         ` Paulo Marques
2004-04-14 13:34           ` Jörn Engel
2004-04-14 13:58           ` maccorin
2004-04-14 14:02           ` Guillaume Lacôte
2004-04-14 14:39             ` Grzegorz Kulewski
2004-04-14 15:07               ` Guillaume Lacôte
2004-04-14 16:14                 ` Grzegorz Kulewski
2004-04-14 15:23             ` Paulo Marques
2004-04-14 15:32               ` Guillaume Lacôte
2004-04-14 17:25           ` Bill Davidsen
2004-04-15  9:28 ` Jörn Engel
2004-04-22  7:59   ` Guillaume Lacôte
2004-04-22  9:18     ` Jörn Engel
2004-04-22 10:20       ` Guillaume Lacôte
2004-04-22 12:15         ` Jörn Engel
2004-04-22 13:06           ` Guillaume Lacôte
2004-04-22 16:00             ` Jörn Engel
2004-04-23 15:16               ` Guillaume Lacôte
2004-04-23 16:57                 ` Jörn Engel

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