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by cryptbe 4956 days ago
I'm so surprised that the security consideration section has no reference to CRIME [1], which has made Google and Mozilla to turn off SPDY's header compression in Chrome and Firefox.

[1] https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/11eBmGiHbYcHR9gL5nDyZ...

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I think this version is basically SPDY 3. SPDY 4 (draft spec: https://github.com/grmocg/SPDY-Specification/blob/gh-pages/d...) uses a completely new header compression algorithm which is not susceptible to the attack used in CRIME.