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Re:AWS switch from gzip to zstd – about 30% reduction in com... by fourfourthree on Saturday August 20, 2022 @04:41AM (#32530431)
I'd be really curious to hear the security discussion around S3 compression, or if they added any additional mitigations. Compressing data and then encrypting it will be vulnerable to a padding oracle attack[1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRIME

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