On Aug 13, 2013, at 07:16, Chris Wakare wrote:

> During the 2013 Black Hat conference , researchers announced the BREACH 
> attack. As BREACH takes advantage of vulnerabilities when serving compressed 
> data over SSL/TLS, its been advised to disable  compression of web responses. 
> 
> I see this  holds true for nodejs applications as well as we by practice 
> always  enable http compression.
> 
> Do refer  https://www.blackhat.com/us-13/briefings.html#Prado for more details

I have not read the page you refer to (TL;DR) but surely the correct solution 
is to fix whatever vulnerabilities may exist in compression with SSL, rather 
than to disable it. Compression is highly desirable and widely advocated, for 
all the obvious reasons.


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