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Out of curiosity, I tried converting two jpegs to pngs (using convert). One of them became four times bigger, the other one nine times bigger.

(BTW, I also tried converting the same jpegs to gifs, and they became five and six times larger.)
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Re^6: prevent arbitrary code execution in images
by paulbort (Hermit) on Sep 16, 2004 at 23:48 UTC
    You discard the conversion output. You just want to know if it worked or not. Like a regex without parens, the only thing you're looking for is metadata.

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