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trx's avatar
trx
Jun 20, 2011

ssl (https) compression

I can't seem to post a forum to the "performance testings" as I've already joined the group, so I thought I post it on here.     Does anyone know if ssl compression can be done on the f5? I don...
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Jan 02, 2018

SSL Compression became effective with RFC 3749, and it isn't supported by LTM. Anyway, because of the CRIME and BREACH attacks, both SSL compression and HTTP compression shouldn't be used by default.