From: Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@gnutls.org>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 16:57:41 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Added a note on compression
X-Git-Tag: gnutls_3_1_2~76
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=769ef368f67cd4bf04ea3208b23ae8a6c76e344b;p=thirdparty%2Fgnutls.git

Added a note on compression
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diff --git a/doc/cha-intro-tls.texi b/doc/cha-intro-tls.texi
index 88ca94cb60..07ba897393 100644
--- a/doc/cha-intro-tls.texi
+++ b/doc/cha-intro-tls.texi
@@ -188,6 +188,9 @@ on @xcite{RFC3749}. The supported algorithms are shown below.
 
 @showenumdesc{gnutls_compression_method_t,Supported compression algorithms}
 
+Note that compression enables attacks such as traffic analysis, or even
+plaintext recovery under certain circumstances.
+
 @node Weaknesses and countermeasures
 @subsection Weaknesses and countermeasures