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Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] Auth48 fixes for QPACK (PR #4986)

Martin Thomson <notifications@github.com> Wed, 27 April 2022 00:22 UTC

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@martinthomson commented on this pull request.



> +<aside><t>
+Note: Padding schemes only provide limited protection against an attacker with
+these capabilities, potentially only forcing an increased number of guesses to
+learn the length associated with a given guess. Padding schemes also work
+directly against compression by increasing the number of bits that are
+transmitted.
+</t></aside>

Carsten mentioned that you can use `{:aside}` in another thread, but I don't know exactly how to do that, maybe...

```suggestion
Note: Padding schemes only provide limited protection against an attacker with
these capabilities, potentially only forcing an increased number of guesses to
learn the length associated with a given guess. Padding schemes also work
directly against compression by increasing the number of bits that are
transmitted.
{:aside}
```

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