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Don't use ECN if packets are discarded
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martinthomson committed Jun 4, 2019
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An on-the-side attacker can duplicate and send packets with modified ECN
codepoints to affect the sender's rate. If duplicate packets are discarded by a
receiver, an off-path attacker will need to race the duplicate packet against
the original to be successful in this attack. Therefore, QUIC receivers ignore
ECN codepoints set in duplicate packets (see {{ecn}}).
the original to be successful in this attack. Therefore, QUIC endpoints ignore
the ECN codepoint field on an IP packet unless at least one QUIC packet in that
IP packet is successfully processed; see {{ecn}}.

## Stateless Reset Oracle {#reset-oracle}

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