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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't compress encrypted data since it opens you up to attacks like CRIME, unless it's at rest and static data.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If that's true, what's to stop someone else from just compressing it themself and opening the same attack vector?