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Re: TO COMPRESS OR NOT TO CMPRS (please reply)

Dennis Glatting <dennis.glatting@plaintalk.bellevue.wa.us> Wed, 19 February 1997 20:34 UTC

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From: Dennis Glatting <dennis.glatting@plaintalk.bellevue.wa.us>
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 12:38:52 -0800
To: EKR <ekr@terisa.com>
Subject: Re: TO COMPRESS OR NOT TO CMPRS (please reply)
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> > At 09:22 AM 2/19/97 -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> > >I see you haven't heard of SSL, eh?
> >
> > I am very aware of SSL (and it provides support for compressing prior to
> > encrypting).
>
> Well, sort of:
>
> There is a socket for compression to be plugged into. There are
> no defined compression plugs (other than null) and I don't
> expect there to be any for some time.
>

There is a proposed compression scheme for TLS:
draft-sabin-lzs-tls-00.txt


-dpg

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