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Explicitly mention compression, see intro for details
authorMichael Savage <mikejsavage@gmail.com>
Tue, 21 Nov 2017 21:42:38 +0000 (23:42 +0200)
committerMichael Savage <mikejsavage@gmail.com>
Tue, 21 Nov 2017 21:42:38 +0000 (23:42 +0200)
doc/man/man3/crypto_lock.3monocypher

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@@ -94,11 +94,9 @@ The secret message.
 Its content will be kept hidden from attackers.
 Its length however, will
 .Em not .
-Make sure message lengths do not leak secret information.
-This has happened before with variable-length voice
-encoding software.
-Solutions to mitigate this include constant-length encodings and
-padding.
+Be careful when combining encryption with compression. See
+.Xr intro 3monocypher
+for details.
 .It Fa cipher_text
 The encrypted message, to be transmitted over the network.
 .El