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Re: Disable OpenSSL compression

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Jeroen Vermeulen <jtv@xs4all.nl>
Cc: Albe Laurenz <laurenz.albe@wien.gv.at>, Marko Kreen <markokr@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2011-11-08T17:39:05Z
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Jeroen Vermeulen <jtv@xs4all.nl> writes:
> Another reason why I believe compression is often used with encryption 
> is to maximize information content per byte of data: harder to guess, 
> harder to crack.  Would that matter?

Yes, it would.  There's a reason why the OpenSSL default is what it is.

			regards, tom lane