[sword-devel] Major Sword bug found -- buffer overflow

L.Allan-pbio paraclete at bibleinverse.org
Wed Mar 1 06:43:10 MST 2006


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If you encrypt first, then I would think that compression would not 
accomplish much ... encrypted text typically compresses very little, if at 
all.

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----- Original Message ----- 

> Martin,
> You have the flow of events incorrect. Compression is last on building. 
> Decompression is first on reading.
>
>> IIRC, in Sword, module encryption works like this
>> raw text -> compression -> encryption



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