I know what I am talking about: above poster is correct.
Proper encryption, maximum compression, and random bytes are all indistinguishable, as they have maximum entropy.
I only failed 9th grade three times, so feel free to correct me.
Proper encryption, maximum compression, and random bytes are all indistinguishable, as they have maximum entropy.
I only failed 9th grade three times, so feel free to correct me.
without additional information!
I can prove to you that you're seeing an encrypted message by giving you the decryption key, and I can prove to you that you're seeing compression by giving you the decompression algorithm.
However, there is no way to prove that random bytes are _really_ random.
well of course, because the opposite is true, any string of bytes can by XOR'd to something meaningful.