Franck Martin wrote:
> While talking about HTML in e-mail messages that consume a lot of > bandwidth...
> Why SMTP servers do not negotiate to send an 8bit compressed stream > between themselves.
Doesn't STARTTLS take care of that? Doesn't TLS support compression, to eliminate redundancy and resist cryptanalysis?
Not quite at present, but we're getting close:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-tls-compression-06.txt
The last call for proposed for this document went out yesterday.
I also note in passing that object level compression in MIME is the subject of this draft:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-freed-mime-newenc-00.txt
Ned