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authorIan Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>2022-07-07 19:23:17 +0100
committerIan Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>2023-06-15 13:58:28 +0100
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Document channel padding stop timeout field values
I UTSL C-tor and it memsets the thing to zero and then fails to write these timeout fields. We should recommend that other implementations do the same.
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(If any party receives an out-of-range value, they clamp it so
that it is in-range.)
+ For the stop padding command, the timeout fields should be sent as
+ zero (to avoid client distinguishability) and ignored by the recipient.
+
For more details on padding behavior, see padding-spec.txt.
7.3. Circuit-level flow control