Re: Stephen Farrell's Discuss on draft-ietf-httpbis-cice-02: (with DISCUSS)

Something like this, perhaps?
  http://httpwg.github.io/specs/rfc7540.html#rfc.section.10.6

Cheers,


> On 3 Sep 2015, at 1:39 am, Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> wrote:
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> Did anyone think through the potential for this kind of
> change to interact with attacks like BREACH? [1] It
> looks like at least some of the mitigations mentioned on
> [1] would not apply to requests, or possibly not, so I
> suspect there is something to say here. If that analysis
> was not done, I think someone ought look at it. If that
> analysis was done, shouldn't there be some mention here? 
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>   [1] http://breachattack.com/
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Received on Thursday, 3 September 2015 00:53:24 UTC