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

Re: Compression questions again.

2001-05-07 Thread Greg Stark
Vincent, Take a look at some of these archived threads: (http://www.mail-archive.com/openssl-users@openssl.org/msg12948.html), (http://www.mail-archive.com/openssl-users@openssl.org/msg09399.html) and see if they address your needs. Greg Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] =

Re: Compression

1999-06-17 Thread Anonymous
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 present

Re: Compression

1999-06-16 Thread Anonymous
There is no official specification how compression should be done. SSL/TLS tells only about the syntax if it's used. I remember Eric implemented something with zlib but I never tested it and it will for shure not work with something else. Oliver Floericke schrieb: > > Hi there, > > does OpenSS