diff --git a/source/de/anomic/tools/crypt.java b/source/de/anomic/tools/crypt.java
index 4ae4be66b..2c201583c 100644
--- a/source/de/anomic/tools/crypt.java
+++ b/source/de/anomic/tools/crypt.java
@@ -129,4 +129,10 @@ public class crypt {
     }
     }
 
+    public static void main(String[] args) {
+        String teststring="1234567890abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ";
+        System.out.println("Teststring   = " + teststring);
+        System.out.println("enc-b result = " + simpleDecode(simpleEncode(teststring, null, 'b'), null));
+        System.out.println("enc-z result = " + simpleDecode(simpleEncode(teststring, null, 'z'), null));
+    }
 }
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diff --git a/source/de/anomic/yacy/yacySeed.java b/source/de/anomic/yacy/yacySeed.java
index 99c23051b..b34731bdc 100644
--- a/source/de/anomic/yacy/yacySeed.java
+++ b/source/de/anomic/yacy/yacySeed.java
@@ -818,7 +818,11 @@ public class yacySeed {
 
     public final String genSeedStr(String key) {
         // use a default encoding
-        return this.genSeedStr('z', key);
+        String z = this.genSeedStr('z', key);
+        String b = this.genSeedStr('b', key);
+        // the compressed string may be longer that the uncompressed if there is too much overhead for compression meta-info
+        // take simply that string that is shorter
+        if (b.length() < z.length()) return b; else return z;
     }
 
     public final synchronized String genSeedStr(char method, String key) {