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

Dave Garrett <davemgarrett@gmail.com> Fri, 09 October 2015 22:40 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] TLS 1.3 - Support for compression to be removed
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On Friday, October 09, 2015 06:18:06 pm Martin Rex wrote:
> are many more, perfectly valid usage scenarios, where TLS compression
> is in current use, such as copying huge sparse files over a
> TLS-protected communication channel.

The better solution is to not do that and actually used compressed file formats optimized for their content types. That will work better than TLS compression or even application layer compression.


Dave

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