Concept of and experiments on combining compression with encryption

17th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences -- OCT 28-30, 2002 -- UNIV CENT FLORIDA, ORLANDO, FLWOS: 000179468900024Compression reduces storage and communication costs by decreasing data size while encryption provides security by making data unintelligible to everyone but the key holder. We present a novel concept that combines these distinct research areas of Computer Science to sum up the benefits of the two. This work adds a security dimension to compression. We also present the results of some experiments on the way of efficiently implementing the concept