On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 06:14:22AM -0700, Eric Rescorla wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 5:25 AM, Ilari Liusvaara <ilariliusva...@welho.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Also, on fast transmission, loss burst of ~2000 packets doesn't take
> > > > much time. Such loss burst could result, e.g., from transient routing
> > > > failure. One might want to discuss how to prevent desyncs from those.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Sure. The answer for this is to use the longer header :)
> >
> > Might put a note that if one should use longer header if there can be
> > more than about 2000 consequtive lost packets.
> >

"
+Note: the DTLSShortCiphertext format does not allow for easy
+reconstruction of sequence numbers if ~2000 datagrams in sequence
+are lost. Implementations which may encounter this situation
+SHOULD use the DTLSDCiphertext format.
"

I presume s/DTLSDCiphertext/DTLSCiphertext/ as I don't see the 
definition of "DTLSDCiphertext" anywhere.


-Ilari

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