Drop compression support in ntbtls
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DemiMarie
May 23 2022, 5:51 PM

Description

TLS compression is insecure (CRIME attack), so ntbtls should drop support for it.

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ntbltls does not implement compression:

/* ret = deflate (&ssl->transform_out->ctx_deflate, Z_SYNC_FLUSH); */
ret = gpg_error (GPG_ERR_NOT_IMPLEMENTED);

;-)