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Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] don't allow 0 as a packet number (#832)

ekr <notifications@github.com> Wed, 04 October 2017 14:31 UTC

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I agree with @nibanks, but it's worth noting that it's also easy to produce
a value that is nonzero:

33s | <30 random bits> | 1



On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 7:09 AM, Nick Banks <notifications@github.com> wrote:

> If we really must have an invalid packet number I would also prefer
> 2^64-1, as that would never be initialized to, since we use 32 random bits,
> and we would essentially limit the maximum number allowed by 1. Really, no
> additional logic required.
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