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Your password could tell a lot about you, it even could reveal your identity. For example if your password is “tinkerbell” then, obviously, you are Paris Hilton. Otherwise if your password is

nucelar – you are George W. Bush
squid – you are Bruce Schneier
heeeeyah – you are Chuck Norris
z1#@!b0DEf7$d – you are Arnold Schwarzenegger in character
*nn […]

Have you ever want to make your very own data compression utility to beat WinZip, but always failed at all that math? Well, there is your chance. There are three Win32 functions will do the trick:

RtlCompressBuffer
RtlDecompressBuffer
RtlGetCompressionWorkSpaceSize

And without further ado here is the C code example of how to use these functions:

#include <windows.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>

/*
#define COMPRESSION_FORMAT_LZNT1 […]

Here is another nice name for a new cipher: SpyBoulder :)