Re: The TCP and UDP checksum algorithm may soon need updating

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Sun, 07 June 2020 23:52 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com>, Joseph Touch <touch@strayalpha.com>
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Subject: Re: The TCP and UDP checksum algorithm may soon need updating
Thread-Topic: The TCP and UDP checksum algorithm may soon need updating
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>    Because the TCP headers aren't part of the hmac digest? Am I missing 
    something?

And how does that affect the application data?  What corruption of TCP headers would not end up being noticed at the application layer and therefore TLS?