Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261695AbVDCLnP (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Apr 2005 07:43:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261688AbVDCLnL (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Apr 2005 07:43:11 -0400 Received: from arnor.apana.org.au ([203.14.152.115]:27659 "EHLO arnor.apana.org.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261684AbVDCLmZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Apr 2005 07:42:25 -0400 Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 21:42:07 +1000 To: "Artem B. Bityuckiy" Cc: David Woodhouse , "Artem B. Bityuckiy" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] CryptoAPI & Compression Message-ID: <20050403114207.GB21255@gondor.apana.org.au> References: <20050401221303.GA6557@gondor.apana.org.au> <424FA7B4.6050008@yandex.ru> <20050403084415.GA20326@gondor.apana.org.au> <424FB06B.3060607@yandex.ru> <20050403093044.GA20608@gondor.apana.org.au> <424FBB56.5090503@yandex.ru> <20050403100043.GA20768@gondor.apana.org.au> <1112522762.3899.182.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050403101752.GA20866@gondor.apana.org.au> <424FC42E.80503@yandex.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <424FC42E.80503@yandex.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i From: Herbert Xu Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 804 Lines: 21 On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 02:23:42PM +0400, Artem B. Bityuckiy wrote: > > It must not. Look at the algoritm closer. This relies on implementation details within zlib_deflate, which may or may not be the case. It should be easy to test though. Just write a user-space program which does exactly this and feed it something from /dev/urandom. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/