Hi
I expect to be shot down regarding this suggestion, but has there been
any thought given to adding and optionally allowing enabing of lz4-v2
compression of the plaintext payload before Wireguard encryption?
The reason I ask is that I was doing some tests recently and was
horrified to find that OpenVPN with it's lz4-v2 switched on seriously
outperformed Wireguard by about 50% in my test case. Obviously YMMV
depending on the data stream.
I believe that lz4-v2 is very fast and has no overhead in incompressible
packets. I realise that there have been some attacks on compressed
encrypted data (eg the CRIME and BReACH attacks on TLS) but I don't know
if they apply here.
Just wondering if there is a reason why it has not been done?
Regards
Peter
