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Re: Compression - was Re[2]: Comments on latest IPSP drafts
Paul_Lambert-P15452@email.mot.com says:
> > Of course you can't compress after
> >encrypting but if almost all the non-link level compression you wanted
> >to do was in conjunction with encryption, why not do something like I
> >had previously described and efficiently have a way of inidcationg
> >compression algorithm in the ESP or whatever payload?
>
> Why not create another Security Transform that first compresses and
> then encrypts outgoing traffic. All algorithms need to be
> negotiated (encryption, compression, integrity) so it would seem
> that comnpression becomes part of the transform selected in the
> establishment of the Security Association.
This indeed seems like the most reasonable course, at least to
me.
Perry
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