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by tommiegannert 964 days ago
There could be a window: the last N sequence numbers are kept in a set, where N is higher than the number of concurrent requests.
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Doesn't the server discarding requests with the timestamp beyond a threshold already do windowing but statelessly?
I responded to this:

>> Timestamps can be vulnerable to clock attacks, right? Why not just include a monotonically increasing request number along with the nonce in each request?

> That interferes with the ability to send multiple requests in-flight at the same time.

I.e. it was assumed there was a sequence number, and I refuted that it disallows concurrent requests.

In general, I agree a signed timestamp is fine.