Re: [xmpp] message size

Ashley Ward <ashley.ward@surevine.com> Thu, 06 March 2014 14:35 UTC

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On 6 Mar 2014, at 14:28, Dave Cridland <dave@cridland.net> wrote:

> You're saying to include, pre-encrypt, something like <spacer:junk xmlns:spacer='urn:...'>123465</spacer> in the plaintext order to defeat message size analysis of the ciphertext?

It’s XML - you could always just use <!β€” β€”> comments or whitespace.

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Ash