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Even QUIC found that the couple of bytes of "flag" fields in the header were enough for middleboxes to mess with it. It seems incredibly hard to devise a protoc
by kevincox 9y ago
Even QUIC found that the couple of bytes of "flag" fields in the header were enough for middleboxes to mess with it. It seems incredibly hard to devise a protocol which is extensible without having middleboxes mess it up.
- lumisota 9y agoIndeed. Though that issue sort of validated the approach: middlebox vendors will latch on to any unencrypted bits they can. The only way to stop that is to encrypt _everything_.