LZ4 compression in openssh

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On 10/25/2013 03:23 PM, Mark E. Lee wrote:
> Thanks for the response, what kind of problematic interactions would
> occur (other than trying to compress seemingly random data)?

e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRIME or similar attacks where the
attacker can inject pre-defined cleartext into the channel and can then
observe length changes in the ciphertext to derive the other
(non-injected) contents of the cleartext.

	--dkg

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