• AgreeableLandscapeOP
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    2 years ago

    I feel like it’s more because most encryption schemes also incorporate compression, it has something to do with preventing entropy-based analysis or some other cryptography black magic.

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      2 years ago

      I don’t think that is the case. There is not general-purpose compression applied to HTTPS as it may leak information like auth tokens. Compression would be transport-encoding compression which is also available in HTTP.