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Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] Field Terminology in QPACK Security Considerations (#4009)

afrind <notifications@github.com> Tue, 18 August 2020 22:30 UTC

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@afrind commented on this pull request.



> @@ -1225,12 +1225,12 @@ a linear-time attack.
 ## Applicability to QPACK and HTTP
 
 QPACK mitigates but does not completely prevent attacks modeled on CRIME [CRIME]
-by forcing a guess to match an entire header field value, rather than individual
+by forcing a guess to match an entire field value, rather than individual

i think it has to match a field line, not field value (here and below)?  And technically the original HPACK text should have said entire header (you have to match the name and value).

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