removing the header from a gzip'd string

Gabriel Genellina gagsl-py at yahoo.com.ar
Fri Dec 22 14:01:16 EST 2006


Fredrik Lundh ha escrito:
> Gabriel Genellina wrote:
>
>  > If you want to encrypt a compressed text, you must remove redundant
>  > information first.
>
> encryption?  didn't the OP say that he *didn't* plan to decompress the
> resulting data stream?
I was trying to imagine any motivation for asking that question. And I
considered the second part as "I'm not the guy who will reconstruct the
original data". But I'm still intrigued by the actual use case...

-- 
Gabriel Genellina




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