Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261802AbVDCPZh (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Apr 2005 11:25:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261817AbVDCPZh (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Apr 2005 11:25:37 -0400 Received: from [213.170.72.194] ([213.170.72.194]:22247 "EHLO shelob.oktetlabs.ru") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261808AbVDCPYc (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Apr 2005 11:24:32 -0400 Message-ID: <42500AAC.5080105@yandex.ru> Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2005 19:24:28 +0400 From: "Artem B. Bityuckiy" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050323 Fedora/1.7.6-1.3.2 X-Accept-Language: en, ru, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Herbert Xu Cc: David Woodhouse , "Artem B. Bityuckiy" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] CryptoAPI & Compression 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> <20050403114207.GB21255@gondor.apana.org.au> In-Reply-To: <20050403114207.GB21255@gondor.apana.org.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 676 Lines: 19 Herbert Xu wrote: > 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. > Well, Herbert, you're right. In case of non-compressible data things are bad. I'll continue investigating this. -- Best Regards, Artem B. Bityuckiy, St.-Petersburg, Russia. - 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/