Different size output on same input with Twofish?

Alain CULOS Alain.Culos@bigfoot.com
Fri, 07 Apr 2000 22:55:46 +0100


Kyle Hasselbacher wrote:


> I have a large cpio file:
> -rw------- 1 kyle root 510725120 Sep 26 1998 longshot-usr.cpio
> I encrypted and signed it twice with the same options:
> -rw------- 1 kyle kyle 179852840 Apr 6 21:09 longshot-usr-2.cpio.gpg
> -rw------- 1 kyle kyle 179682409 Apr 7 04:05 longshot-usr-3.cpio.gpg
Hi, I may open my mouth too early as I am not very knowledgeable in the area, but isn't there a time stamp with every signature (meaning the time when it was encrypted) ? If so, that would : 1/ change the data 2/ hence change the encryption and compression you can get out of it (you're using gzip -9) Best regards, Alain.