Messages - Inconsistent statements about mitigating replay attacks

Issue #301 resolved
Michael Jones created an issue

"nonce" is defined as "A random, unique string value used to mitigate replay attacks." (3 times!)

But then later, the spec says "The Client SHOULD check the nonce value for replay attacks. Replay attack mitigation is out of scope for this specification." (2 times!)

Are we mitigating replay attacks or not?

Comments (4)

  1. Michael Jones reporter

    Delete the sentence: Replay attack mitigation is out of scope for this specification. Add "The precise method used for detecting replay attacks using the nonce is client specific."

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