Hi, I think this is more of a "Security by Obscurity" approach. E.g. compressed credit card details flying down the wire are less obvious than their plaintext equivalent.
I guess there may also be a case of increased difficulty when trying to decompress a single part of captured traffic, like you would get when trying to decompress a 10k part of a large zip file. hth danny On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 10:49, Director General: NEFACOMP wrote: > Hi group, > > I have read in the MySQL manual that the client/Server Compression protocol adds > some security to the application. > > Does anyone have more information on this? > > > > Thanks, > __________________________________ > NZEYIMANA Emery Fabrice -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
