Bryan Mongeau bryan at eevolved.com
Thu Feb 15 20:03:49 EST 2001

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Hi,

I'm implementing an encrypted network protocol in which it is clear that 
both parties will be using zlib as the compression mechanism.  It would be 
beneficial to remove the zlib compression header from the the compressed 
plaintext prior to encryption, to avoid possible known plaintext attacks.  
Is there a way to do this? The zlib module doesn't explain the header well. 
Can I just chop off a specific number of bytes from the beginning? If so 
how many?

Thanks.
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