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    1 year ago

    Anyone willing to drop some learning on a lay person? Is encrypted data less compressable because it lacks the patterns compression relies on?

    No, I can’t because you just answered your own question perfectly there. If there’s any patterns detectable at all in your ciphertext that’s a very bad sign.