OK well if you encrypt a compressed file, there are bound to
be lots more new redundencies created in the encryption
process (unless it is something like ROT-13). Why not
compress this AGAIN, squeezing more space out o
Actually, you've got it backwards. A decent encryption algorithm,
including DES, generates something with very little redundancy,
and hence which cannot be compress further.
$ compress </vmunix >vmunix.Z
$ des -e -k foo
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