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Data compression

  • CRIMEIn 2012, security researchers observed a strange pattern in encrypted web traffic. The size of the data packet changed slightly when an attacker injected…
  • MP3In the early 1980s, Karlheinz Brandenburg began working on digital music compression at Germany's University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.
  • Frame rateThe human eye processes between 10 and 12 images per second as distinct pictures. Rates above this threshold merge into smooth motion for most observers.
  • White noiseIn 1948, Claude Shannon published a paper that introduced the concept of white noise as a random signal with equal intensity across all frequencies.