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Re: Whatever happend to compression?

sorry -- that's what I meant.  I guess I was asking this...

is this combination:

   original IP packet -> AH + ESP(Compression(original))

something that other people are thinking about.  ESP being one payload
scheme and Compression being another payload scheme.  I believe the RFC's
support the concept of multiple payload schemes, right?

>To: Rodney Thayer <rodney@sabletech.com>
>Cc: ipsec@TIS.COM
>Subject: Re: Whatever happend to compression? 
>Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 16:12:07 -0400
>From: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@apollo.hp.com>
>Sender: ipsec-approval@neptune.tis.com
>
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>   In other words, the "don't worry PPP will make you happy" answer is
>   not considered sufficient?
>
>Well, it won't make you happy (unless all you want is a
>feature-checkoff box..)
>
>Any encryption algorithm which generates output which is compressible
>should be considered highly suspect.
>
>You need to compress before you encrypt (and decompress after you
>decrypt).
>
>					- Bill
>
>
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