On 07/18/2017 08:07 AM, Eric Rescorla wrote:
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>
> On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 3:39 PM, Benjamin Kaduk <bka...@akamai.com
> <mailto:bka...@akamai.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     That is, in this case, the CH+0RTT data can be replayed by an
>     observer once enough time has elapsed that the
>     expected_arrival_time is within the window, similar to one of the
>     reordering attacks mentioned elsewhere.  We could add the CH to
>     the strike register in this case, which would bloat its storage
>     somewhat and have entries that take longer than the window to
>     expire out.
>
>     I don't have a good sense for how often we expect postdated CHs to
>     occur and whether the ensuing breakage would be manageable, but
>     I'm not sure that we've thought very hard as a group about this
>     question.
>
>
> I think post-dated are going to happen pretty often based on what I
> understand from
> Kyle and others. I wouldn't be comfortable with hard fail, especially
> given that this
> just seems like the dual of the other case. Adding the CH to the list
> seems like
> a problem because it might stay forever.
>

The "stay forever" part is awkward, yes.  It would be great if Kyle/etc.
could say a bit about why post-dated seems likely on the list, but I
guess for the purposes of WGLC we can consider this comment resolved.

-Ben
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