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Re:Xkcd: Heartbleed Explanation by fulafel on Friday April 11, 2014 @09:42AM (#7572746)
> I have no idea why the payload is variable-sized

For DTLS path MTU discovery (according to the heartbeat extension RFC).

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Re:Xkcd: Heartbleed Explanation by EvanAnderson on Friday April 11, 2014 @11:36AM (#7573496)
That could have been accomplished with a fixed-length payload and variable-length padding, though.
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