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
> 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?
>
It adds security by compressing the network trafic, which is more security
by obscurity, as this might stop a ca
