[noise] encrypted nonce / udp packet number

David Wong davidwong.crypto at gmail.com
Fri Jul 20 17:33:19 PDT 2018


> does anyone understand how they do this at all?
> As far as i understand, it is not safe to reuse the same nonce for an
> AEAD with different plaintext,
> so without having a unique nonce, how do you encrypt the .. nonce?


Hey Arvid,

Check https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-quic-tls-13#section-5.3

Notice this line: "Packet number protection is applied after packet
protection is  applied"

So a nonce is in clear and used to decrypt first


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