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Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] Defense against version number corruption (#3532)

Martin Thomson <notifications@github.com> Wed, 18 March 2020 21:16 UTC

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We used to require that a client ignore Version Negotiation packets that include the version the client attempted.

@DavidSchinazi edited that out.  Maybe we should restore it.  That pushes the odds of failure to 1 in 90 quadrillion.  Would that help?

I want to say that this is a design issue.

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