[Dovecot] SSL + compression?

Ed W lists at wildgooses.com
Sat Jun 21 01:04:48 EEST 2008


Johannes Berg wrote:
>> I don't think it does be default. The only what I know is to establish a 
>> compressed SSH tunnel to your server and then access the server over the 
>> tunnel. It will compress and give you an extra layer of encryption.
>>     
>
> Umm, no. It will not compress. Think about it, encrypted data is
> fundamentally not compressible, that's the whole point.
>
>   

We are way off topic...

Back to the original question - discount SSH - how do we get compression 
+ SSL out of openssl..

Ed W


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