[stunnel-users] Update docs to remove RLE as compression choice

Michal Trojnara Michal.Trojnara at mirt.net
Fri Nov 6 14:09:53 CET 2009


Joe Kemp wrote:
> I just confirmed that RLE compression is not truly implemented in  
> OpenSSL.  It would be helpful to remove it from the stunnel docs so  
> people don’t think it’s an option to compress data.  ZLIB is it.
>
> And yes I spent a good bit of time last year with Wireshark to  
> determine RLE vs ZLIB compression ratios in stunnel.  Shockingly  
> ZLIB was always better…
>
> One other note that may be important for some people is that 0.9.7  
> openssl is not compatible with 0.9.8 with respect to zlib compression.

Good work.  I've updated the manual:
http://stunnel.mirt.net/static/stunnel.html

Best regards,
	Mike
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