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

Dave Garrett <davemgarrett@gmail.com> Wed, 07 October 2015 20:01 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] TLS 1.3 - Support for compression to be removed
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On Wednesday, October 07, 2015 03:51:57 pm Martin Rex wrote:
>  However, it is RECOMMENDED
>  that implementations which support compression provide a configuration
>  option allowing consumers to disable the use of compression in TLS.

Risky features like compression should be off by default.


Dave

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