Re: [rohc] FW: ESP and header compression (ROHC)

[Stephen Kent <kent@bbn.com>]

At 9:30 AM +0800 4/15/03, Wang Haiguang wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have also considered this scheme before, that is, compress the header
>behind the ESP before encryption and decompress it after decription in the
>end-to-end scenario.
>
>What I am not clear is the effect of header compression to security.
>If I am not wrong, the IPSec has add some padding bytes at the
>end of the packet in order to hide the length of packet.
>
>If we compress the padding bytes, will it endanger the security of 
>the connection?
>
>Best regards.
>
>Haiguang

I do not believe this is a concern.