[Bug 2888] Consider adding other compression schemes (lz4, zstd)

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https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2888

--- Comment #15 from Paul Szabo <psz2036 at gmail.com> ---
> Note that ... (https://arxiv.org/html/2609.07709) has shown ...
> There is some discussion about deprecating transport-level compression
> entirely from the standard:
> https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ssh/OTx4JjSbHPe6dYiRQ7VRG0D4CqE/
> I would not expect to see much support for adding new transport level
> compression algorithms for these reasons.

The right fix would be to implement compression at the channel level, 
replacing the global one at the transport level.

Removing functionality should not be the response to percieved security
issues: why not just drop SSH altogether?

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