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A comment on OpenSSL memory use in Node.js.

Re:OpenSSL memory use in Node.js by pronoiac on Tuesday April 05, 2011 @05:51PM (#2412888)
Eep! Skipping compression before you encrypt is a bad idea. Using it saves bandwidth, & makes attacks much more complicated.

Can Node.js do some compression before it hands off data to OpenSSL?

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Re:OpenSSL memory use in Node.js by newman314 on Tuesday April 05, 2011 @06:58PM (#2413145)
Probably if you use something like node-compress or node-zippy.
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