Hi

On Sun, Jun 03, 2018 at 12:48:36PM +0200, Gert Doering wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 03, 2018 at 12:11:57PM +0200, Steffan Karger wrote:
> > A server should not push us compression algorithms we didn't specify.  If
> > the server does so anyway, reject the compression algorithm.
> 
> I can see why you do this, but if I understand this right, this will
> break lots of currently-working OpenVPN setups - where we use the IV_
> variables to parse out "what can the client do?" and send matching
> "compress <foo>" PUSH_REPLYs.
> 
> So, feature-NAK.

As clarified on IRC, I misread the text.  So I withdraw the feature-NAK
and need to read this more closely and better think through the problem
space.

gert

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Gert Doering - Munich, Germany                             g...@greenie.muc.de

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