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[–] Venat0r@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Also might be faster to encrypt a compressed file, since it will be smaller?

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Well, encryption tends to be either a very fast operation or something with a slow stage that doesn't depend on the size of your data. So although this is technically true, it's also not relevant.