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Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] handling of coalesced packets with decryption errors creates DoS opportunity (#2308)

MikkelFJ <notifications@github.com> Wed, 08 May 2019 07:01 UTC

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> In the rare cases of false positive, when the funny coalesced packet is not in fact an attack, the peer will just resend after at time out.

What if it resends to the same "Christmas tree", for example for probing to get source CID?

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