Re: JDBC compression over SSL

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Dave Cramer <pg(at)fastcrypt(dot)com>, Edoardo Innocenti - SDB Information Technology Srl <edoardo(dot)innocenti(at)tech(dot)sdb(dot)it>, "pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: JDBC compression over SSL
Date: 2015-01-05 15:36:47
Message-ID: 30886.1420472207@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> Yep... and I'm not sure it's actually doing SSL compression, rather than
> compression of the stream *inside* the SSL socket.

Worth noting here is that many/most people have abandoned use of SSL
compression because it is now known to render the stream more
decryptable. I do not know whether that objection also applies to
doing separate compression "inside the socket" as you put it.

regards, tom lane

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