RFC 8879: TLS Certificate Compression
In plain English — editorial summary, not part of the RFC
In TLS handshakes, certificate chains often take up the majority of the bytes transmitted. This document describes how certificate chains can be compressed to reduce the amount of data transmitted and avoid some round trips.
Document record
- Document ID
- RFC8879
- Published
- December 2020
- Authors
- A. Ghedini; V. Vasiliev
- Status
- PROPOSED STANDARD
- Stream
- IETF
- Area
- sec
- Pages
- 8
- Also known as
- —
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