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Re: [Ace] question about wrong types

Ludwig Seitz <ludwig@sics.se> Tue, 25 October 2016 05:52 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Ace] question about wrong types
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On 2016-10-24 17:42, Samuel Erdtman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would opt for reject, and if the we think it is to narrow to require
> the tag then we should explicitly change that.
>
> //Samuel
>

Reject sounds reasonable, otherwise we open up for potential data-format 
swapping attacks.

/Ludwig


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