Oliver, compression is in the draft. but, as Holger says, its kind of vague in how it is to be implemented in practice, compression doesn't seem to produce enough benefits, when used with streaming encryption, to make its use worthwhile. I'll point you, and the others on the list, to a presentation Eric Young gave at RSA'99 where he touched on the topic (pages 43-45 of the pdf presentation). Basically from Eric's figures, he concluded that compression is best left to the application that knows something about the data, and can choose the best compression techniques for the specific type of data being carried over the SSL pipe. the presentation also has some good figures on cipher overheads in SSL/TLS. http://www.aus.rsa.com/rsa99/ssl-tls.pdf Regards /Neil Costigan Celo Communications Oliver Floericke wrote: > > Hi there, > > does OpenSSL support data compression as mentioned in the Netscape draft? > Does anybody know if this feature is supported by other SSL > implementations?? > > Thank you, > > Oliver > > ______________________________________________________________________ > OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org > User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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