Compression of random binary data

[Thomas Jollans]

On 2017-10-23 07:39, Steve D'Aprano wrote:
> By the way: here is a very clever trick for hiding information in the file
> system:
> 
> http://www.patrickcraig.co.uk/other/compression.php
> 
> 
> but as people point out, the information in the file, plus the information in
> the file system, ends up being *larger* than the original. Well done to
> Patrick Craig for finding a clever loophole to "win" the challenge, but he
> did so without actually compressing the original data.

Thanks Steve that was very entertaining.


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Thomas Jollans