Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] Improve KEY_PHASE description (#43)

[ianswett <[e-mail]>]

ianswett commented on this pull request.



> +decrypt these packets, which will be unsuccessful.  Though a server that has
+1-RTT keys can safely discard any unprotected handshake messages from the
+client, an unprotected ACK frame could indicate that the server needs to
+retransmit its own handshake messages.  ACK frames therefore cannot be
+discarded.
+
+Until the server has received a positive acknowledgment for all of its
+unprotected handshake messages, either in the form of an explicit acknowledgment
+or implicitly through the use of 1-RTT keys, it MUST NOT discard packets with a
+KEY_PHASE of 0 if they cannot be decrypted successfully.  If these packets are
+unprotected and contain ACK frames, those ACK frames MUST be recovered and used
+to determine whether to retransmit TLS handshake messages.
+
+TBD:
+
+: We could observe/require that all unprotected packets are marked with a

Agreed, let's go with this.

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