Can compress also password protect?

[Bill Vlahos]

There is no provision in the Rev dictionary for other parameters in the compress or decompress function. The RFC shows one option for compression but nothing regarding encryption or password protection.

Is there a cross platform way to add encryption requiring a password in the compress statement or should I do this as two separate steps? If I encrypt first then I will lose any advantage of compression because there will be no patterns.

Bill Vlahos