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Re: [TLS] Result of Working Group Last Call for draft-ietf-tls-padding-01

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Sun, 22 March 2015 19:34 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] Result of Working Group Last Call for draft-ietf-tls-padding-01
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On 22 March 2015 at 11:21, Yoav Nir <ynir.ietf@gmail.com> wrote:
> Five years from now, and giving you the power to force everyone to upgrade their software, do you want this being used?

There is this feature in QUIC where their equivalent of the
ClientHello is padded to a certain significant size.  The theory there
is that you don't want your server to be used in a packet
amplification attack (ClientHello being generally smaller than the
ensuing flight from the server).  I think that perhaps there might be
a standards-based use for a feature that at least made the size of the
flights commensurate in size.

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