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

Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be> Sat, 19 September 2015 11:46 UTC

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From: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
To: "Alewa, Christos" <christos.alewa@hob.de>
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Subject: Re: [TLS] TLS 1.3 - Support for compression to be removed
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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.


Kurt

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