[cenhyperion]

>Is this referring to typical gzip compression in HTTP

Yes. It's a major vulnerability discovered in the past few months that significantly weakens the crypto.

Website Describing the attack: http://breachattack.com/

Django Blog Post: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2013/aug/06/breach-and-...

[barrydahlberg]

That's not cool. The last thing we need is more things for people to use as reasons for not using HTTPS at all.