RE: Compression (was RE: COMPLEXITY BIG ISSUE)

> Can we further agree that compression is a red-herring!!!

We are planning (as I understand it) to create standards for the use of
encryption and authentication. Encryption and authentication by their very
nature need to be performed at a lower level than compression. I therefore
ask why security is our concern but not compression (which can significantly
improve security by removing redundancy prior to encryption).

JWS