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Re: TO COMPRESS OR NOT TO CMPRS (please reply)
At 06:30 PM 2/17/97 -0800, 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.
In a perfect world, that would be the case. But not everything will be
compressed. (telnet, IP tunnels, ftp, smtp, nntp, etc). But if you
can compress the data, you have less to encrypt and you end up sending
less bits and using less cpu to encrypt those bits.
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