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Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] Version Negotiation when Version = 0 (#816)

Nick Banks <notifications@github.com> Fri, 30 November 2018 20:40 UTC

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Subject: Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] Version Negotiation when Version = 0 (#816)
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I'd like to reopen this issue, because if two servers support enough versions to produce really large VN packets, then an attacker could get them to continually send VN back and forth. So I think a server should silently drop a version 0 packet that it receives.

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