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

[Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <[e-mail]>]

On Thu, 2015-09-24 at 10:52 +0300, Yoav Nir wrote:

> > On other lists I still see the occasional quip about suffering a
> > low
> > bandwidth connection. It used to be folks in some European
> > countries,
> > but most recently I seem to recall South American. (I think we're
> > seeing the shift because South American countries are going places
> > American and Europeans have already been with respect to
> > infrastructure).
> 
> At some point the countries with the least developed infrastructure
> eventually go through some government-led project to improve
> infrastructure, and that makes them leapfrog most other countries
> just because all their infrastructure is suddenly new. It happened in
> South Korea 15 years ago, and it’s happening in many African
> countries now. I don’t think we should burden a security protocol
> with a problematic mode based on a perceived need that might
> evaporate in a couple of years. Deploying high bandwidth is even
> faster now that you can make the last mile wireless rather than
> running copper or fiber to individual homes.

That only works if you think the browser over the internet usage of
TLS. TLS as used in the "Internet of Things" applications, is going to
be deployed in many low bandwidth scenarios.

regards,
Nikos