[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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