Re^2: Customer data encryption

[0xbeef]

in reply to Re: Customer data encryption
in thread Customer data encryption

Thanks, this makes sense and I will likely end up using it like this. I was wondering if there are any drawbacks to compressing first - e.g. if an attacker could perhaps exploit any patterns that gzip/bzip2 may produce?

Niel

[traveler]

Very unlikely. Encryption will add entropy to the entropy making it somewhat more difficult to crack than just encrypted text.

[ikegami]

That's what salting is for.