How can you possibly compress encrypted data? An ideal cipher should produce output indistinguishable from randomness, which is inherently difficult (read: near impossible) to compress.
Hopefully we corrected the docs and the comments here help, but we don't encrypt before we compress. We compress before we encrypt.
My bad - fixed.
In the next paragraph after the one you fixed
> crypt encrypts, compresses, then encodes your value for storage
dammit.
In this thread: just talking or writing _about_ encryption can be difficult. To say nothing of correctly implementing it in a project.