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

Loganaden Velvindron <loganaden@gmail.com> Sat, 19 September 2015 12:29 UTC

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From: Loganaden Velvindron <loganaden@gmail.com>
To: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
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Subject: Re: [TLS] TLS 1.3 - Support for compression to be removed
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On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 11:46 AM, Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 01:23:19PM +0000, Alewa, Christos wrote:
> > Since we at HOB, use SSL to maintain long-running VPN connections, might
> it be possible to - at least - maintain the status quo of the TLS -
> protocol in this aspect, enabling and disabling compression if needed?
>
> If compression is dropped at the TLS layer, you can still do it at
> the layer above it.
>
>
Indeed. And, it's probably a better idea to do it in the layer above.



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