On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 2:40 AM Ben Smyth <resea...@bensmyth.com> wrote:

> Section 4.2.11.1 explains that:
>
> ...PskIdentity contains an obfuscated version of the ticket age formed by
> taking the age in milliseconds and adding the "ticket_age_add"... This
> addition prevents passive observers from correlating connections unless
> tickets are reused.
>
> So: Correlations are possible when tickets are reused. But, what
> connection correlations are prevented when tickets aren't reused?
>

If ticket X is issued at time T and then reused at time T+delta, it
prevents the attacker from learning delta and hence from learning T.

-Ekr


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>
> Ben
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