Re: Compression Doubt in Specifications

2002-06-24 Thread Geoff Thorpe
Hi, On 24 Jun 2002, Shalendra Chhabra wrote: > HI > I fail to understand the following: > > In SSL 3.0, the Plaintext blocks are blocks of 2^14 > But when they are compressed it is written: > > Compression must be lossless and may not increase the content > length by more than 1024 bytes. > I ju

Compression Doubt in Specifications

2002-06-24 Thread Shalendra Chhabra
HI I fail to understand the following: In SSL 3.0, the Plaintext blocks are blocks of 2^14 But when they are compressed it is written: Compression must be lossless and may not increase the content length by more than 1024 bytes. I just wanted to know how can compression increase length? Is it