Adayadil Thomas wrote:
Greetings.
I have an SSL session in which the client and server has negotiated for
cipherSuite SSL_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_MD5
compressionMethodzlib-compression
Now, is the zlib-compression applied before encryption or after ?
data - zlib-compression -
Greetings.
I have an SSL session in which the client and server has negotiated for
cipherSuite SSL_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_MD5
compressionMethodzlib-compression
Now, is the zlib-compression applied before encryption or after ?
data - zlib-compression - encryption ==
I am almost sure its after...
First you encrypt and then compress.
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Greetings.
I have
I have an SSL session in which the client and server has negotiated for
cipherSuite SSL_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_MD5
compressionMethodzlib-compression
Now, is the zlib-compression applied before encryption or after ?
data - zlib-compression - encryption == decrypt -
Vinu Thomas wrote:
I am almost sure its after...
First you encrypt and then compress.
No way. First compression, then encryption, like Brad already said.
Encrypted data is (almost) incompressible, regardless of cleartext.
Hope it helps.
Ted
;)
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