[tor-bugs] #9022 [Pluggable transport]: Create an XMPP pluggable transport

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Tue Jun 18 17:35:55 UTC 2013


#9022: Create an XMPP pluggable transport
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 Reporter:  asn                  |          Owner:  feynman 
     Type:  task                 |         Status:  accepted
 Priority:  normal               |      Milestone:          
Component:  Pluggable transport  |        Version:          
 Keywords:                       |         Parent:          
   Points:                       |   Actualpoints:          
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Comment(by rransom):

 Replying to [comment:41 feynman]:
 > Replying to [comment:38 asn]:
 > > Hey feynman,
 > >
 > > thanks for all the new features, and sorry for being less active on
 this lately.
 > >
 > > BTW, due to the encryption of TLS, I'm not sure how helpful the
 caching is, since all TLS records should look unique on the wire. For the
 same reason, zlib might not find much stuff to compress in your TLS
 traffic.

 > TLS encryption should be completely independent of caching. It is not
 caching the TLS packet, but the data it sends *before* it gets encrypted
 with TLS. The same goes for the zlib compression stuff.

 Tor connections are encrypted (and authenticated) using TLS before they
 reach your XMPP transport.

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