Abstract
This paper intro uces a new technology that combines compression an encryption into a single operation referred to as Encompression. This novel scheme is base on a special class of a sparse network - known as Cellular Automata (CA). The simple, regular, modular, cascadable, local neighborhood structure of CA ideally suits for low cost, online Encompression to support efficient data transmission with desired level of security. A pipeline architecture has been propose for hardwired realization of Encompression operations.