Hi, As we all know compressing encrypted data is not something that can be considered useful, sinds it should show random paterns and that does not compress that well (understatement..)
But, SSL for example, had options to include compression options / plug-in's / what ecver to do some compression before the encryption takes place. Is there anyone who has expiriences with this? On is familiar with these kind of things? For an application we need to send a lot of text-data using a browser interface and we need to encrypt it. Be we could gain a lot - and have lots of leaselines- with data compression, only you need to do that before all the data in encryped. Any pointers? Thanx, Renee. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pradeep Kumar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Peter 'Luna' Runestig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 5:49 PM Subject: RE: Encryption for FTP/MAil/Web > ...why not use VPN tunnel to encrypt FTP ? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter 'Luna' Runestig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 3:58 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Encryption for FTP/MAil/Web > > > From: "Myers Chad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 4:11 AM > <snip, snip, snip...> > > > Yes, ssl-ftp can encrypt the control & data channel; it's not > > required to do so, but it is allowed per the RFC, and the few > > ssl-ftp servers I found had it as a configurable option. > > There is no RFC yet for this, I suppose you mean the IETF draft > draft-murray-auth-ftp-ssl-NN.txt > > > > If you want a cheaper solution, you can try using Stunnel on > > > a standard > > > FTP daemon. It was only by using stunnel I was able to get ncftp to > > > connect to an SSL-FTP server... I haven't yet seen any standalone > > > FTP-SSL clients yet, not even for Unix. > > unix client (OpenBSD-based): > ftp://ftp.runestig.com/pub/ftp-tls/ > > unix servers: > ftp://ftp.runestig.com/pub/ftpd-tls/ (OpenBSD-based) > ftp://ftp.runestig.com/pub/proftpd-tls/ > > Cheers, > - Peter > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Peter "Luna" Runestig (fd. Altberg), Sweden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > PGP Key ID: 0xD07BBE13 > Fingerprint: 7B5C 1F48 2997 C061 DE4B 42EA CB99 A35C D07B BE13 > AOL Instant Messenger Screenname: PRunestig > >
