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C07-RI: Yes

Rationale

DTLS 1.3 retains encrypted inner-plaintext padding. Combined with the TLS 1.3 record-padding semantics, this allows optional padding to obscure useful-record sizes, satisfying the limited C07 mechanism-presence criterion.

Assessment method

Documentary mechanism inventory; no traffic-analysis experiment

Source context

Primary packet-format, signaling and padding specifications

Outstanding qualification

Padding policy and deployment are unqualified. Packet timing, addresses, total padded volume and fragmentation remain visible; DTLS does not protect RPL control messages. Measure correlation reduction and overhead before claiming effectiveness.

Public sources

• https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9147.html#section-4
• https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8446.html#section-5.4

Editorial evidence references

The following identifiers refer to research records not included in this public package; they are not public links.

• round263-sources.json