What is the advantage of doing this in Wireguard as opposed to doing it as a separate project?
-- Jehan Tremback [email protected] On Fri, Dec 30, 2016, at 06:34 PM, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > Hi Rektide, > > On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 7:09 AM, rektide <[email protected]> wrote: > > Greetings. Compression would be a great feature for WireGuard & it's > > roadmap. Perhaps the latest high compression & high throughput, very > > tuneable Zstd from Cyan4793? I think it'd make a fine complement to the > > other very nice modern technologies WireGuard has adopted. > > http://facebook.github.io/zstd/ > > > > IPSec has a decent if not very modern history of compression with deflate, > > lzs, and lzjh support via IP Compression packets. That shows that there's > > some precedent for this feature. More recently OpenVPN has added LZ4 > > support. > > > > I want to throw on a feature request- compression. It'd be great to get > > free compression across the tunnel. OpenVPN recently added LZ4 compression. > > I personally would love to see Zstd supported. Seeing compression added to > > your roadmap would be immensely satisfying for me, > > I'd point to the author of both LZ4 and Zstd- Cyan4973-'s post introducing > > Zstd for more info the tradeoffs between these and others (Snappy, lzo, > > &c), which boil down to CPU usage and compression ratio, > > http://fastcompression.blogspot.com/2015/01/zstd-stronger-compression-algorithm.html > > That's an interesting idea. The first concern that immediately comes > to mind is data leakage and CRIME-like compression attacks. We'd have > to tread very carefully in order to do this right. Is there a > particular implementation strategy for this you have in mind? > Historically adding compression to crypto protocols has been quite > risky. > > > This would make a huge difference for me while I am tethered to cellular. > > Do you have any metrics on what kind of difference? I've never tried > out the effects of compression on cellular links. Is it immediately > noticeable in some obvious way? > > Jason > _______________________________________________ > WireGuard mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.zx2c4.com/mailman/listinfo/wireguard _______________________________________________ WireGuard mailing list [email protected] https://lists.zx2c4.com/mailman/listinfo/wireguard
