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Re:For a brief period, the Windows kernel tried to deal with... by dfox on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @06:45PM (#18498954)
One thing to keep in mind is that the network protocols usually use quite weak and similar checksums. To the extent that there are layer combinations that reliably produce errors that are not detectable by TCP checksum.
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Re:For a brief period, the Windows kernel tried to deal with... by acdha on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @09:16PM (#18499714)
Has anyone published results on the impact of large scale TLS deployment on reliability? I’ve seen some older papers on errors which TCP missed but it seems like making a hard fail would be a nice win as the crypto overhead keeps getting cheaper.
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