[quicwg/base-drafts] Pathological performance edge cases should be documented in security considerations (#1756)

ianswett <notifications@github.com> Mon, 17 September 2018 18:46 UTC

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Particularly in light of SegmentSmack and FragmentSmack(https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/AWS-2018-018/), we should add some text detailing data structures in QUIC that are likely prone to similar attacks and advise using data structures that do not have N^2 behavior and/or limiting their total size to mitigate potential bugs.

Prompted by #1751 

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