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

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Tue, 22 September 2015 18:40 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Julien ÉLIE <julien@trigofacile.com>, "tls@ietf.org" <tls@ietf.org>
Thread-Topic: [TLS] TLS 1.3 - Support for compression to be removed
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The security community thinks that compression is risky, error-prone, and that a security/auth layer is the wrong place to put it.

So far, the only counter-argument has been "if TLS 1.2 has a flaw, I want to move to TLS 1.3 without losing data compression."

Is this accurate?

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