On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 2:04 AM, John-Mark Gurney <[email protected]> wrote:

> marcelo bagnulo braun wrote this message on Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 19:01
> +0200:
> > The options we can identify are the following ones:
> > - Protect only the payload (don't include any of the TCP header fields
> > in the MAC calculation)
>
> If this does not include the sequence number, then how can we possibly
> prevent replay attacks?  As you discuss later, preventing replay
> attack IMO should be done as it isn't that much more difficult...


You can protect replay attacks on the payload by incorporating a sequence
number into the integrity check. This is how TLS works ordinarily.

-Ekr
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