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RE: compression and encryption
good analysis. one minor note: If a burst is compressed, certainly
uncompressing packet k requires receipt of packets 1..k-1. But if
packet k is lost, is it necessary to retransmit packets 1..k-1? Or
can the history be reset and the process begun again with k set
as 1? The latter would allow a higher packet loss, since the
"average" packet loss would be lower.
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From: Steve Bellovin[SMTP:smb@research.att.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 1996 5:54 PM
To: ipsec@tis.com
Subject: compression and encryption
I've been thinking a lot about doing compression over a lossy medium
such as IP.
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