Increasing data security by data compression
We analyze the effect of data-compression on security of encryption both from theoretical and practical point of view. It is demonstrated that data-compression essentially improves the security of encryption, helps to overcome technical difficulties. On the other side, it makes crypt-analysis more difficult and causes extra problems. At present data-compression applied rarely and frequently defectively. We propose a method which eliminates the negative effects. Our aim is initiate data compression as an aid for data security. To this end we provide an overview of the most frequently used cryptographic protocols. A comparison with encryption software reveals that even the most frequently used protocols do not support encryption and compression.