At 09:40 AM 7/29/1999 +0100, Darren Harter wrote:
1. Are we really concerned with saving network bandwidth these days? If
we are then clearly compression is essential. If we're not, why are we
discussing it at all?
There is another aspect that is more relevant to non-S/MIME uses of CMS:
speed of encrypting. Studies done by the IPsec folks found that the
combination of compressing and encrypting with TripleDES is faster than
encrypting uncompressed data. The fact that the resulting payload is
smaller is obviously an additional advantage.
--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium