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Re: [tcpinc] Revised version of TCP-ENO

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Thu, 13 August 2015 22:43 UTC

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Subject: Re: [tcpinc] Revised version of TCP-ENO
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On 13 August 2015 at 15:22, David Mazieres
<dm-list-tcpcrypt@scs.stanford.edu> wrote:
>
> * Unless and until applications disclose information about the session
>   ID, all but the first byte MUST be computationally indistinguishable
>   from random bytes to a network eavesdropper.


Don't call out the first byte.  The whole thing is what will matter
here.  As long as two session IDs are indistinguishable from each
other, I think that we're OK.

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