Re: caching and compression profiles?

> > eric - what's the story on TLS use of compression? is it automatic,
> > if available? or is there some other "magic" involved.
> Not good.
> 
> TLS has "support" for compression and automatic algorithm
> negotiation. However, no magic numbers are defined so it doesn't
> actually exist. Essentially what happened was that there were IPR
> concerns about all the algorithms so there was a reluctance to
> standardize.
> 
> A couple of people have implemented compression on an experimental
> scale but there's nothing standard. IIRC, OpenSSL has (disconnected)
> support for RLE and zlib.

eric - thanks, that's very good data. what that indicates to me is that if there's interest in a tuning profile for beep that does compression, then it should be used regardless of whether or not the session has already been tuned for privacy... (but, obviously, tuning for compression should occur after tuning for privacy!)

thanks!

/mtr