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   1 Server maintains a queue of outbound packets for each user
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   3 Packets which are older than the applicable max_queue_time are discarded
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   5 Each incoming request to the server takes up to max_batch_down bytes
   6 from the queue and returns them as the POST response body payload
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   8 Each incoming request contains up to max_batch_up bytes of payload.
   9 It's a multipart/form-data.
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  11 Authentication: for now, plaintext password
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  13 Routing assistance: none needed; secnet polypath will DTRT
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  15 Client form parameters (multipart/form-data):
  16  m              metadata, newline-separated list (text file) of
  17                         client ip address (textual)
  18                         password
  19                         target_requests_outstanding
  20                         http_timeout
  21  d              data (SLIP format, with SLIP_ESC and `-' swapped)
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  25 Future nonce-based authentication:
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  27 server keeps big nonce counter for each client
  28 meaning is:
  29  nonce counter is most recent nonce client has sent
  30 also server keeps bitmap of the previous ?64 nonces,
  31  whether client has sent them
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  33 client picks.... xxx