Tell HN: Adding congestion control and retry tokens to a reliable UDP transport (opens in new tab)
I've been experimenting with USTP-Secure, a reliable UDP transport I've been building. The latest version adds: Optional congestion control Retry tokens to reduce amplification risk Optional cleartext + HMAC mode (integrity without encryption) Authenticated ACK/NACK packets One design choice I'm still thinking about is congestion control for an intentionally unordered reliable transport. Unlike TCP, USTPS doesn't enforce ordered delivery at the transport layer. Missing packets can be retransm...
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