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Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] CID's should be compared in constant time (#2477)

Jana Iyengar <notifications@github.com> Tue, 19 February 2019 03:09 UTC

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I agree with @martinthomson that we've assumed decryption to be relatively cheap, and that being able to guess a CID is therefore not a particularly interesting attack.  I don't think this issue warrants any language in the spec.

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