Design references

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• Error Concealment
• MIDI 1.0, General MIDI Extended
• Reliable UDP
• QUIC
• Error Correction Code

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Should also support Brotli compression at level 1, because it's...

• Performant, at around 300 MiB/s
• Best worst-case outcome, only adding 4 bytes
• Acceptable compression ratio, at 3.88

Can use Content-Encoding: br under HTTP mode to dynamically adapt.

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https://github.com/httptoolkit/brotli-wasm

Potential Brotli implementation.

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• HTTP/2 fast reset attack: https://blog.cloudflare.com/technical-breakdown-http2-rapid-reset-ddos-attack/

• Browser connection limits: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36835972/is-the-per-host-connection-limit-raised-with-http-2

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Potentially, handshakes can timeout after 10 to 30 seconds, while a connection can be considered dead after having no activities for 90 to 150 seconds. Browsers time out after 30 for handshakes, and 120 or 300 for activities. The maximum non-multiplexed allowed connection count between the browser and the server should be 8, as per browser practices (6~8).

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Firefox settings (network.http):

• tls-handshake-timeout: 30
• response.timeout: 300
• connection-timeout: 90
• connection-retry-timeout: 250
• keep-alive.timeout: 115
• largeKeepaliveFactor: 20
• max-connections: 900
• max-persistent-connections-per-proxy: 32
• max-persistent-connections-per-server: 6
• max-urgent-start-excessive-connections-per-host: 3
• max_response_header_size: 393216
• network-changed.timeout: 5
• pacing.requests.burst: 10
• pacing.requests.hz: 80
• pacing.requests.min-parallelism: 6
• request.max-attempts: 10
• request.max-start-delay: 10
• tcp_keepalive.long_lived_idle_time: 600
• tcp_keepalive.short_lived_idle_time: 10
• tcp_keepalive.short_lived_time: 60
• http2.chunk-size: 16000
• http2.default-concurrent: 100
• http2.ping-timeout: 8
• http2.ping-threshold: 58
• http2.timeout: 170

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NGINX default timeouts: https://www.baeldung.com/linux/nginx-timeouts#bd-basic-nginx-timeouts

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Some considerations to increase throughput or not, taken from designs of NGINX and I2P.

• Because NGINX (and likely other web servers, excluding CDNs) imposes limits on how long requests could be streamed, the underlying web requests should have send and receive phases capped at a certain timeout that's below NGINX limits. Conforming to these standardized web servers will unintentionally cause all underlying stateful connections to have a short lifespan.
• Since Ditzy operates on a per-message basis, as long as the messages will reach the destination, the states of all underlying connections do not matter for all the sockets reconstructed over it.
  • As such, if load-balancing reverse proxies do not interfere with the final destination the messages will reach, throughput could've been increased via distributing messages across multiple underlying connections, or select a portion of underlying connections for high loads to leave some leeway for small but quick message delivery (e.g. live-streaming with stream chat). Or else, messages to the same socket ID with the same client ID should only be delivered over underlying connections guaranteeing the same destination.
  • Operating on a per-message basis, again, should prove it easy to implement connection migration, as there are no requirements to deliver the egress and ingress packets over the same underlying connection.

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• HTTP/2 fast reset attack: https://blog.cloudflare.com/technical-breakdown-http2-rapid-reset-ddos-attack/

• Browser connection limits: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36835972/is-the-per-host-connection-limit-raised-with-http-2

There is another possible attack with client IDs. Since server egress load would be distributed across all underlying connections set with the same client ID, there exists a chance where an attacker could've got some of the victim's S-C messages. Client ID bind messages could've added an extension that allows integration of a simple key verification/challenge if concerned, and rate limits could've been placed to limit how fast client ID binds can happen.

However, with an ID space of 1 to 268435455 (2²⁸-1) and with some rate limits set, a collision is unlikely to happen. A successful collision will take 13768938.79 (5th percentile), 28282497.91 (10%), 186065278.45 (50%), 618095475.96 (90%) and 804160754.41 (95%) attempts respectively on average. If a once-per-second rate limit is placed on client ID binds, a collision will happen in 159.36 days under the unluckiest circumstances. Unless proven otherwise, a verification/challenge scheme is largely not needed.

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Just a thought: Apart from forcibly offering reconstructed duplex connections, Ditzy could also be used as a multiplexing scheme...