Explain potential for abuse #28
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dthaler
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Co-authored-by: Dave Thaler <[email protected]>
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| @@ -198,6 +198,17 @@ not limited to those discussed in this document, can affect fingerprinting. A | |||
| deeper analysis of this topic has been deemed out of scope. | |||
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| While protocol features, extensions, and versions all have legitimate uses, they | |||
| can become a burden when used to excess. For example, the ability to send | |||
| protocol grease that a peer is required to ignore can be abused to cause it to | |||
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Maybe explain some examples of the abuse — not just the fact of ignoring one greased object, but having a flood of them that are all ignored, etc.
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Thought: There is a "cost" when the greasing creates state, even if only to ignore the greased value. (I can think of cases where seeing a new value needs the receiver to do work to ignore. )
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We could also have some positive advice earlier to generators of great to say "don't grease too much" |
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Discussion in the room was: split the text across the sections, which I'll do on this PR so its not ready to be merged yet |
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Fixes #22