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Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] It seems the minimal packet number length should be 14 bits (#2955)

Marten Seemann <notifications@github.com> Wed, 07 August 2019 02:37 UTC

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> This issue will cause the receiver ""ACK the wrong packet number"" and the related stream will hang for ever.

That's not correct. If you decode the packet number incorrectly, decryption of the packet will fail, since the packet number is used as the nonce for the AEAD. Really, the worst thing this will happen  in this case is that the packet is discarded as undecryptable and eventually detected as lost by the sender.

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