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    1 year ago

    Also a lay person. Maybe it’s because of the time complexity. Let’s say you have data of size 10 (any unit) which becomes size 8 after compression.

    If you encrypt first: Encrypt size 10 of data -> Conpress size 10 of data

    If you compress first: Compress size 10 of data -> Encrypt size 8 of data

    So second way is faster as the compression still takes the same size of input but the encryption takes a smaller input.