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Re:Google disables compression for OpenSSL in Chrome - SSL e... by comex on Wednesday September 12, 2012 @10:55PM (#4514561)
You could still probably get more than a bit per request along those lines with some experimentation.
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Re:Google disables compression for OpenSSL in Chrome - SSL e... by makomk on Thursday September 13, 2012 @04:06PM (#4518278)
Probably, yeah. Thinking about it, one obvious approach might be to try and overlap the last step of guessing one byte with the first step of guessing the next byte, for instance.
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