Calculating ciphertext sizes

Aaron Toponce aaron.toponce at gmail.com
Mon Jul 11 21:26:04 CEST 2011


When encrypting a plaintext source, is there a way to predict the size of
the ciphertext output? I'm sure this depends on the cipher used, as well if
compression or hashing algos are used.

Just curious.

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