Encryption File Size

tony medeiros houseurmusic at gmail.com
Thu Feb 23 00:18:06 CET 2012


Is there a guaranteed ratio of plain to cipher? If so what is it?
In other words cipher_size < plain_size * X + H?
Where H = header_size + footer_size + user_size + etc information
and     X = Worst case scenario (I'm encrypting an already compressed file)

Thanks!
Tony
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