Am 05.04.21 um 09:38 schrieb Simon Matter: >> Hi, >> >> On Sat, Apr 03, 2021 at 03:07:11PM +0200, Simon Matter wrote: >>> Apr 3 15:00:30 gw-X1 openvpn[1477]: pre-compress bytes,833300152 >>> Apr 3 15:00:30 gw-X1 openvpn[1477]: post-compress bytes,796650159 >>> Apr 3 15:00:30 gw-X1 openvpn[1477]: pre-decompress bytes,343572096 >>> Apr 3 15:00:30 gw-X1 openvpn[1477]: post-decompress bytes,510118472 >> >> This is indeed fairly significant - and if WAN circuits are full and/or >> cost money per Gbyte, compression is still a win. >> >> I'm more of a compression fan than not :-) - so this will be interesting >> discussions indeed. > > Hi Gert, > > Based on the answers I got on this list I'm afraid there won't be any > discussion and compression is gone. That's really sad as it is a useful > feature for many use cases as I was easily able to show.
Currently compression is not planned to be removed for an upcoming release. However from our discussion it should be clear that compression has evolved from a once useful feature for VPN when the security impact wasn't known and HTTP still was 90% vs 10% HTTPS to a niche feature as enabling compression by default on a VPN is not reasonable any more. The future will tell how long compression will stay in OpenVPN. It depends on how big/small the niche is and how much work it is to continue supporting this feature. Arne _______________________________________________ Openvpn-devel mailing list Openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-devel
