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Investigate about security vulnerability of compressing then encrypting data #687

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ngocdaothanh opened this issue Dec 20, 2019 · 0 comments
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Investigate about security vulnerability of compressing then encrypting data #687

ngocdaothanh opened this issue Dec 20, 2019 · 0 comments

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Compressing data before encrypting it gives information away about what is encrypted if the end user has control over what is encrypted. Through trial and error you could effectively decrypt the contents.

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