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

Julien ÉLIE <julien@trigofacile.com> Tue, 22 September 2015 18:37 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] TLS 1.3 - Support for compression to be removed
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Hi Dave,

> No sane security protocol should allow any mode which is known to be
> insecure under its common use-case.

Then the default in TLS 1.3 could be to not activate compression.


> TLS 1.2 is technically
> configurable in a secure manner, but hardly anyone does so correctly.
> With TLS 1.3, we need to get rid of all of the insecure modes so all
> configurations are secure (at least to start).

This is compatible with keeping compression as a mode that can be 
explicitly activated.

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Julien ÉLIE

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