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Re: [TLS] Confirmation of Consensus on Removing Compression from TLS 1.3

Bill Frantz <frantz@pwpconsult.com> Sat, 29 March 2014 22:49 UTC

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It causes security problems.

It adds code to a security module (i.e. TLS).

It can easily and securely be added externally (by separately 
compressing items from different security contexts).


I say nuke it.

Cheers - Bill

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