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This draft is a work item of the Electronic Data Interchange-Internet Integration Working Group of the IETF.

	Title		: Compressed Data for EDIINT
	Author(s)	: T. Harding
	Filename	: draft-ietf-ediint-compression-04.txt
	Pages		: 6
	Date		: 2005-1-31

The intent of this document is to be placed on the RFC track as an 
Informational RFC.

The EDIINT AS1 and AS2 message formats don't currently contain any 
transport neutral provisions for compressing data when utilizing S/MIME
as the secure packaging standard. Compressing data before transmission 
provides a number of advantages including

1. reducing data redundancy, and so reducing opportunities for attacks
exploiting redundancy, and
2. reducing the amount of data and so speeding up cryptographic
processing such as signing, encryption, archiving, and 
3. reducing the overall transmitted message size, reducing both time and
bandwidth needed for transport.

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