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Re: TO COMPRESS OR NOT TO CMPRS (please reply)
Daniel Harkins wrote:
> > I know that there are some wg members who support the use of compression,
> > some who don't and some who haven't expressed an interest either way. Well,
> > the time has come to decide. PLEASE RESPOND BY INDICATING YOUR POSITION.
> > Be sure to copy the wg list in your reply.
>
> I support the use of compression but not in IPsec. It should be done up
> higher, perhaps the transport level. It's better to compress the stream
> of data before it's divided into packets than to wait and compress each
> packet. I'd rather see 50 packets then 100 smaller ones.
Compression allows for saving a valuable ressource. This might be done on
intermediate systems (e.g. firewalls) which also care about enterprise
security and to encryption. Usually in those systems no upper layer is
available.
I support compression as an optional (and important) function in ESP.
Germano
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