Re: TLS working group minutes, Montreal IETF

Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 02:48:37 -0400
From: Win Treese <treese@openmarket.com>

> Transport Layer Security Working Group
> Meeting at the 36th IETF
> 24 June 1996
>
> Reported by Win Treese (treese@OpenMarket.com)
>
> 	...
>
> 5. There was some discussion of including compression in
> the protocol. The current SSL draft has a placeholder,
> but no compression algorithms are defined. Jeff
> Schiller pointed out that compression has run into
> patent problems, especially when connected with
> encryption.
>

Is there a problem with having GNU ZIP as a compression
algorithm?


-dpg

Received on Saturday, 13 July 1996 03:09:41 UTC