Re: applying AES-GCM to secure shell: proposed "tweak"

[Damien Miller <djm%mindrot.org@localhost>]

On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Peter Gutmann wrote:

> >http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-miller-secsh-compression-delayed-00
> 
> Hmm, why not just apply it only to the data packets? The random
> non-data- related messages exchanged (again, mostly high-entropy
> binary blobs) aren't going to compress much (if at all), and will only
> have the effect of messing up the compression by polluting the source
> statistics. With data-payload-only compression it'd be much cleaner
> and easier to handle, just run the compressor over the data-packet
> payload and leave everything else as is.

Since we are expressing wishes for the transport protocol, mine is a
per-packet compression flag :)

-d