On Mon, 16 Jan 2017 18:06:40 -0600
William A Rowe Jr <[email protected]> wrote:

> If so, maybe we teach both to step out of the way when SSL encryption
> filters are in place?

This would make no sense. Brotli is only supported over HTTPS by
browsers.

Compression-based attacks are a tricky problem, however someone has yet
to show that they are abused in practice. But preventing deployment of a
new compression algorithm doesn't help. You'd have to disable
compression altogether to avoid them.

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