LZ4 compression in openssh

[Mark E. Lee]

Thanks for the response, what kind of problematic interactions would
occur (other than trying to compress seemingly random data)?

Regards,
Mark

On Fri, 2013-10-25 at 04:02 -0400, Dan Kaminsky wrote:
> Compression has some problematic interactions with encryption that
> OpenSSH seems to have handled far before anyone else (by having it off
> by default). 
> 
> On Thursday, October 24, 2013, Darren Tucker wrote:
>         On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 07:30:38PM -0400, Mark E. Lee wrote:
>         > I'm a long time user of openssh and I was wondering if there
>         is any work
>         > towards supporting alternative compression methods in
>         openssh like LZ4?
>         
>         not that I've heard of.
>         
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