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Re: [TLS] TLS 1.3 - Support for compression to be removed

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Mon, 05 October 2015 01:28 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Yoav Nir <ynir.ietf@gmail.com>, takamichi saito <saito@cs.meiji.ac.jp>
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Subject: Re: [TLS] TLS 1.3 - Support for compression to be removed
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> There are many lessons to be learned from this: that a bearer token that is
> repeated many times is not a good idea; that the trust model in the web is
> not great; but also that blindly compressing content with no regard to its
> structure and sources is dangerous and reveals information about the
> cleartext.  A security protocol should not do that.

This is a great note, and excellent explanation.

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