Hello,

I agree with stephane that we can't prevent covert channels. I will do a 
revised draft with what I think is the rough concensus of the WG regarding 
non-zero padding over the next few days.

Alex 



---- Paul Wouters schrieb ----

>On Wed, 18 Nov 2015, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
>
>> So i think that we should still say that a packet sender MUST pad with
>> all-zeros for this draft, even though a recipient MUST NOT reject a
>> query or response just because it a non-zero octet in its padding.
>>
>> In addition to compatibility with future versions, we don't want to
>> encourage another heartbleed where uninitialized memory goes out on the
>> wire.  And we don't want to encourage people to leak big chunks of their
>> raw CSPRNG output to their correspondent.
>
>+1
>
>Paul
>
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