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# Security Considerations

## Local Denial of Service
## Congestion Signals

QUIC requires congestion control, and recommends Reno. Not using a
congestion control algorithm or using an overly aggressive
algorithm may cause flows sharing the same link to experience
excess delay, packet loss, and timeouts.
Congestion control fundamentally involves the consumption of signals -- both
loss and ECN codepoints -- from unauthenticated entities. On-path attackers can
spoof or alter these signals. An attacker can cause endpoints to reduce their
sending rate by dropping packets, or alter send rate by changing ECN codepoints.

## Traffic Analysis

ACK only packets are small and can be heuristically identified by
packet size unless padded or bundled with other frames.
Acknowledgement patterns and sizes may expose information
about the link characteristics and/or application behavior.
Packets that carry only ACK frames can be heuristically identified by observing
packet size. Acknowledgement patterns may expose information about link
characteristics or application behavior. Endpoints can use PADDING frames or
bundle acknowledgments with other frames to reduce leaked information.


# IANA Considerations
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