Computer application

Discuss how compression is used for email attachments. In addition, you will discuss a comparison between compression and encryption. A student who simply copies and pastes an article from the web will score a 0 on the assignment. You will complete Part 1 and Part 2 below for this assignment.

Part 1: Post

When email technology first evolved the file size of the emails was very small with few to no attachments. Today email attachments are sometimes large and exceed limitations of the ISP or email system. Discuss the compression utility solution to this problem and the difference between compression and encryption to emails.