> fyi:
>
> on compression
>
> Eric Young gave a very interesting presentation on SSL/TLS at the RSA ?
> show ('99)
> part of it was on some empirical figures on the use of compression inside
> SSL the conclusion, (if I got it right) was that good compression is
> very close to the properties of the data being compressed,
> that a "one size fits all" compression method inside SSL wasn't going to
> give worthwhile benefits for all data,
> and that it is best done at application layer rather than in the network.
I haven't read the paper yet, but it seems to me that if this were so,
programs like 'gzip' and 'bzip2' would be much less useful than they seem to
actually be.
DS
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