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Re: Whatever happend to compression?
A few thoughts.
In general, compression is nice in that it randomizes the data first,
then encryption further scrambles the bits making it harder for
anyone to make sense of it. It's another roadblock to the bad guy.
Compression should happen before encryption since compression
works better on raw data than on encrypted data.
Compression (as per the CCP draft RFC) can compress the PPP
header information as well as the data which helps overall
performance on WAN links.
How about this? Once RFC's are set for IPSEC and CCP, another WG
could be put together to define encryption and compression
interaction in the PPP world. Eh? Or will a WG even be needed?
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