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Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] Retransmit server initial upon second Initial (#3080)

MikkelFJ <notifications@github.com> Mon, 07 October 2019 08:31 UTC

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> that says the client should/may immediately retransmit its initial packet if it gets a handshake packet it can't decrypt?

That could be an attack vector since you could send small invalid handshake packets. Not sure how efficient such an attack would be and we don't try too hard to avoid problems at this stage, as long as isn't an efficient amp attack.

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