When a file is to be transmitted from a sender to a recipient and when the latter already has a file somewhat similar to it, remote differential compression seeks to determine the similarities interactively so as to transmit only the part of the new file not already in the recipient’s old file. Content-dependent chunking means that the sender and recipient chop their files into chunks, with the cu
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