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

Dave Garrett <davemgarrett@gmail.com> Tue, 22 September 2015 19:20 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] TLS 1.3 - Support for compression to be removed
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On Tuesday, September 22, 2015 02:56:36 pm Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> If compression increases entropy, then one could argue its a desired
> service with security benefits.

It does not. Lossless compression is just storing the same information in a more compact form, without losing anything. Whatever entropy the source has is preserved, seeing as the information of the source is fully preserved. The format of this data is not relevant to this analysis.


Dave

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