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authorJack Lloyd <[email protected]>2016-12-30 21:06:58 -0500
committerJack Lloyd <[email protected]>2016-12-30 21:06:58 -0500
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@@ -3,7 +3,9 @@ Lossless Data Compression
Some lossless data compression algorithms are available in botan, currently all
via third party libraries - these include zlib (including deflate and gzip
-formats), bzip2, and lzma.
+formats), bzip2, and lzma. Support for these must be enabled at build time;
+you can check for them using the macros ``BOTAN_HAS_ZLIB``, ``BOTAN_HAS_BZIP2``,
+and ``BOTAN_HAS_LZMA``.
.. note::
You should always compress *before* you encrypt, because encryption seeks to