Re: Payload length 0

Christian Huitema <huitema@huitema.net> Sun, 20 May 2018 01:06 UTC

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On 5/19/2018 5:50 PM, Jana Iyengar wrote:

> There may be a slightly more compelling reason though. I've been
> thinking about optimizing loss recovery for coalesced packets, and I
> keep running up against the possibility that a future middlebox might
> split coalesced QUIC packets, if it is allowed. I have been thinking
> about future-proofing coalesced packets from getting split by such
> middleboxes (as they do for TCP), and it occurs to me that a special
> value of 0 could be used as this signal. If length is 0, then the
> packet is coalesced, and otherwise not. This forces a middlebox to
> forward coalesced or non-coalesced packets as they are, without any
> re-packetization shenanigans.

The only way to prevent middlebox from hacking some part of the protocol
is to use encryption. Any clear text hack will only be a slight road
bump for the middle-box hackers.

For example, if we coalesce a CI and a 0-RTT packet, we could have the
zero RTT encryption depend on the presence of the previous packet.

-- Christian Huitema