Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] Construction of address validation token (#2587)

Erik Sy <notifications@github.com> Tue, 09 April 2019 19:47 UTC

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No, #2543 does not cover this particular point. #2543 makes the point that a network observer should not be able to derive information such as a timestamp from observed tokens.

However, this issue says that the construction of the token should not be deterministic. To illustrate this problem, assume that the token is more or less the hash of the client's source address. Thus, the client receives upon repeat connections the each time the same token, if its source address is identical. As a result, even if the client uses each token only a single time the corresponding connections established with these tokens can be correlated to each other by a network observer.

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