Re:Wikipedia’s Switch to HTTPS Has Successfully Fought Gover...
by cyphar on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @08:39PM
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Yeah, good point. I presumed it would be a pain, but I never thought to see if someone actually tried it.
Though you shouldn't be compressing things over TLS. I think the only proper solution is to pad out all articles (and images) to the nearest 2kB or something so that you can't figure out the length (randomness can be thwarted by forcing refreshes).
In the event this was even tried, it would presumably be trivial to defeat with injection of random content somewhere in the server responses anyway. This of course all assumes we can trust the root certificate authority though :P