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Re:Xkcd: Heartbleed Explanation by tedchs on Friday April 11, 2014 @11:36AM (#7573494)
64k is the max value of a 2-byte unsigned int, as 2^16 - 1 = 65535; is that the size of the length prefix?
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Re:Xkcd: Heartbleed Explanation by stackcollision on Friday April 11, 2014 @03:49PM (#7575162)
I looked at the code and I'm pretty sure I saw that the payload size variable was a long int, so I was confused by this too.
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