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The BEAST and CRIME attacks both let an attacker extract secrets from a page by making guesses about the page's contents, and then measuring how much the response compresses. It is probably worthwhile to warn users about the side effects of compressing responses if they contain secret information. For more information, see http://security.stackexchange.com/a/102015/12208.
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The BEAST and CRIME attacks both let an attacker extract secrets from a page
by making guesses about the page's contents, and then measuring how much the
response compresses. It is probably worthwhile to warn users about the side
effects of compressing responses if they contain secret information.
For more information, see http://security.stackexchange.com/a/102015/12208.