38Pass
2Fail
17Inconclusive
95%of 40 conclusive
Stack: quinn + h3 (our fork) ·
Language: Rust ·
Version: noq fork
· Measured 2026-09-17
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By class
Rolled up by what the clause requires rather than into one number. A client that ignores unknown extensions correctly but never emits the right error codes has a specific, nameable problem, and an average is exactly what hides it.
| Class | Passing means | Pass | Fail | Inconclusive |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| correctness | Rejected something invalid, with the code the RFC names. | 11 | 2 | 11 |
| discretionary | The RFC permits either behaviour; the report says which was chosen. | 11 | 0 | 1 |
| extensibility | Ignored something unknown and carried on. | 4 | 0 | 1 |
| interoperability | Correctly decoded something valid but demanding. | 6 | 0 | 2 |
| resilience | Recovered rather than giving up. | 6 | 0 | 2 |
Every result
| Test | Clause | Verdict | What happened |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version Negotiation offering a reserved version alongside v1 | RFC 9000 §6 | Pass | Responded correctly: sent Version Negotiation for 1 datagram(s); the client did not persist with an unsupported version. |
| Retry packet for source-address validation | RFC 9000 §8.1.2 | Pass | Responded correctly: echoed the Retry token and completed the handshake. |
| Reserved transport parameter (31·N+27) | RFC 9000 §18.1 | Pass | Ignored the unrecognised element and carried on: completed a handshake carrying a reserved transport parameter. |
| Unknown frame type in a 1-RTT packet | RFC 9000 §12.4 | Pass | Responded correctly: closed with FRAME_ENCODING_ERROR, which is the code §12.4 requires for a frame of unknown type. |
| NEW_CONNECTION_ID followed by RETIRE_CONNECTION_ID | RFC 9000 §5.1 | Inconclusive | The run did not exercise this test: the connection was too short-lived to require a rotation. |
| Stateless reset | RFC 9000 §10.3 | Pass | Responded correctly: was sent a Stateless Reset and went quiet — nothing further arrived in the 3 seconds that followed, which is the draining period §10.3.1 requires. |
| Deliberately tight MAX_DATA and MAX_STREAM_DATA | RFC 9000 §4 | Pass | Handled it: respected the window without sending a BLOCKED frame, which §4.1 permits. |
| ACK Frequency extension offered | draft-ietf-quic-ack-frequency | Pass | Handled it: ignored the extension, which the specification permits. |
| Packets marked ECT(0) | RFC 9000 §13.4 | Inconclusive | The run did not exercise this test: ECN validation failed: packets sent marked ECT(0) came back acknowledged without ECN counts, so the marking was disabled. Whether the peer declined to report or the path rewrote the codepoint cannot be told apart from this end. |
| Path MTU black hole above a threshold | RFC 9000 §14, RFC 8899 | Pass | Recovered: detected the black hole 1 time(s) and settled on a 1293-byte path MTU (45 datagram(s) swallowed). |
| Server-initiated PATH_CHALLENGE | RFC 9000 §8.2 | Pass | Responded correctly: answered with 1 PATH_RESPONSE. |
| 0-RTT rejected after the client sends early data | RFC 9001 §4.6.2 | Inconclusive | The run did not exercise this test: the client sent no early data, so nothing was rejected. 0-RTT needs a session ticket from an earlier connection to this same port, and a client that connects once has none. |
| A second path offered mid-connection | draft-ietf-quic-multipath | Pass | Handled it: declined the multipath offer and stayed on one path, which is conformant. |
| Spontaneous 1-RTT key update | RFC 9001 §6.2 | Pass | Decoded it and completed the request. |
| Stream limits set to the minimum a request needs | RFC 9000 §4.6 | Pass | Handled it: stayed inside the stream limits and announced the stall (0 STREAMS_BLOCKED for bidirectional, 1 for unidirectional), which §4.6 recommends but does not require. |
| One datagram in twelve dropped once the path is established | RFC 9000 §2.2, §13.3 | Pass | Recovered and completed the follow-up request. |
| Datagrams arriving from a second server address | RFC 9000 §9.6 | Pass | Tolerated it and continued. The specification permits this but does not require it; a client that rejected it would also be conformant. |
| Transport parameter carrying a value the specification forbids | RFC 9000 §7.4, §18.2 | Inconclusive | The run did not exercise this test: the client abandoned the handshake (timed out) without a CONNECTION_CLOSE this endpoint could read. It certainly saw the parameter — that travels in the handshake — but §7.4 asks for a rejection carrying TRANSPORT_PARAMETER_ERROR, and none was observed. A close that was sent and lost cannot be told apart from one that was never sent. |
| 425 (Too Early) in answer to a request sent as early data | RFC 8470 §5.2 | Inconclusive | The run did not exercise this test: the client sent no early data, so it was never answered 425. 0-RTT needs a session ticket from an earlier connection to this same port, and a client that connects once has none. |
| Path marking packets CE, not just ECT(0) | RFC 9000 §13.4 | Inconclusive | The run did not exercise this test: no ECN counts came back at all. §13.4.1 requires reporting only where the ECN field is accessible, and a path that stripped the codepoint cannot be told apart from a client that does not report. |
| A second key update after the first is acknowledged | RFC 9001 §6.1, §6.5 | Pass | Decoded it and completed the request. |
| No stream credit at first, then MAX_STREAMS mid-connection | RFC 9000 §4.6 | Pass | Handled it: announced the block with 1 STREAMS_BLOCKED rather than opening a stream it had no credit for, which is what §4.6 recommends. |
| Reserved SETTINGS identifier (0x1f·N+0x21) | RFC 9114 §7.2.4.1 | Pass | Ignored the unrecognised element and completed the follow-up request. |
| Reserved frame type on the response stream | RFC 9114 §7.2.8 | Pass | Ignored the unrecognised element and completed the follow-up request. |
| Unidirectional stream with a reserved stream type | RFC 9114 §6.2.3 | Pass | Ignored the unrecognised element and completed the follow-up request. |
| SETTINGS containing the same identifier twice | RFC 9114 §7.2.4 | Pass | Rejected with error 0x109. The specification permits this but does not require it; a client that ignored it would also be conformant. |
| A DATA frame on the control stream | RFC 9114 §7.2.1 | Pass | Rejected with the required error code 0x105. |
| Control stream whose first frame is not SETTINGS | RFC 9114 §6.2.1 | Pass | Rejected with the required error code 0x10a. |
| A second control stream opened by the server | RFC 9114 §6.2.1 | Pass | Rejected with the required error code 0x103. |
| Field lines referencing dynamic table insertions | RFC 9204 §4.3.3, §4.5.2 | Inconclusive | The run did not exercise this test: the client advertised SETTINGS_QPACK_MAX_TABLE_CAPACITY of 0 and SETTINGS_QPACK_BLOCKED_STREAMS of 0, which forbid the server's encoder from using the dynamic table at all. |
| Huffman-coded field lines with maximal padding | RFC 9204 §4.1.2, RFC 7541 §5.2 | Pass | Decoded it and completed the request. |
| Field section larger than the client's advertised maximum | RFC 9114 §4.2.2 | Pass | Decoded it and completed the request. |
| Trailing field section after the body | RFC 9114 §4.1 | Pass | Decoded it and completed the request. |
| 103 Early Hints before the final response | RFC 9110 §15.2, RFC 8297 | Pass | Recovered and completed the follow-up request. |
| GOAWAY sent mid-connection | RFC 9114 §5.2 | Pass | Recovered and completed the follow-up request. |
| MAX_PUSH_ID sent by the server | RFC 9114 §7.2.7 | Pass | Rejected with the required error code 0x105. |
| SETTINGS frame on a request stream | RFC 9114 §7.2.4 | Inconclusive | The client completed its request and then said nothing further before the window closed. A rejection whose CONNECTION_CLOSE was lost cannot be told apart from a client that never objected: QUIC re-sends that frame only in answer to an incoming packet, so one that goes missing is simply never seen. |
| DATA frame before any HEADERS on the response stream | RFC 9114 §4.1 | Inconclusive | The client completed its request and then said nothing further before the window closed. A rejection whose CONNECTION_CLOSE was lost cannot be told apart from a client that never objected: QUIC re-sends that frame only in answer to an incoming packet, so one that goes missing is simply never seen. |
| CANCEL_PUSH for a push ID that was never promised | RFC 9114 §7.2.3 | Fail | Rejected, but with error 0x105 where the specification requires 0x108. The violation was detected; the code reported is wrong. |
| Field section that blocks until the encoder stream catches up | RFC 9204 §2.1.2, §2.2.1 | Inconclusive | The run did not exercise this test: the client advertised SETTINGS_QPACK_MAX_TABLE_CAPACITY of 0 and SETTINGS_QPACK_BLOCKED_STREAMS of 0, which forbid the server's encoder from using the dynamic table at all. |
| Response stream reset mid-body with H3_REQUEST_CANCELLED | RFC 9114 §8, §4.1 | Pass | Tolerated it and continued. The specification permits this but does not require it; a client that rejected it would also be conformant. |
| PRIORITY_UPDATE sent by the server | RFC 9218 §7.2 | Pass | Tolerated it and continued. The specification permits this but does not require it; a client that rejected it would also be conformant. |
| SETTINGS_ENABLE_CONNECT_PROTOCOL with a value outside 0 and 1 | RFC 9220 §3, RFC 8441 §3 | Pass | Tolerated it and continued. The specification permits this but does not require it; a client that rejected it would also be conformant. |
| PUSH_PROMISE for a push the client never allowed | RFC 9114 §7.2.5, §4.6 | Fail | Rejected, but with error 0x105 where the specification requires 0x108. The violation was detected; the code reported is wrong. |
| SETTINGS_H3_DATAGRAM with a value that is neither 0 nor 1 | RFC 9297 §2.1.1 | Inconclusive | The client completed its request and then said nothing further before the window closed. A rejection whose CONNECTION_CLOSE was lost cannot be told apart from a client that never objected: QUIC re-sends that frame only in answer to an incoming packet, so one that goes missing is simply never seen. |
| Encoder stream setting a dynamic table capacity above the client's limit | RFC 9204 §4.3.1, §6 | Inconclusive | The client completed its request and closed without objecting, but the anomaly was written to the control stream — a unidirectional stream nothing obliges it to read on any schedule. A one-shot request can finish before that stream is picked up, so this is equally consistent with accepting the violation and with never having seen it, and neither can be told from here. |
| A second GOAWAY naming a larger identifier than the first | RFC 9114 §5.2 | Pass | Rejected with the required error code 0x108. |
| Push stream opened for a push nobody allowed | RFC 9114 §6.2.2 | Inconclusive | The client completed its request and closed without objecting, but the anomaly was written to the control stream — a unidirectional stream nothing obliges it to read on any schedule. A one-shot request can finish before that stream is picked up, so this is equally consistent with accepting the violation and with never having seen it, and neither can be told from here. |
| Field line indexing a static table entry that does not exist | RFC 9204 §3.1, §4.5.2 | Inconclusive | The client completed its request and then said nothing further before the window closed. A rejection whose CONNECTION_CLOSE was lost cannot be told apart from a client that never objected: QUIC re-sends that frame only in answer to an incoming packet, so one that goes missing is simply never seen. |
| Datagrams delivered out of order | RFC 9000 §2.2 | Pass | Recovered and completed the follow-up request. |
| Encoder instruction naming a static index that does not exist | RFC 9204 §3.1, §4.3.2 | Inconclusive | The client completed its request and closed without objecting, but the anomaly was written to the control stream — a unidirectional stream nothing obliges it to read on any schedule. A one-shot request can finish before that stream is picked up, so this is equally consistent with accepting the violation and with never having seen it, and neither can be told from here. |
| Server negotiates only the post-quantum hybrid X25519MLKEM768 | RFC 8446 §4.1.4, draft-ietf-tls-hybrid-design | Pass | Decoded it and completed the request. |
| Server negotiates only classical X25519 against a hybrid offer | RFC 8446 §4.1.1, draft-ietf-tls-hybrid-design §5 | Pass | Handled it: declined to negotiate when only the classical X25519 was offered, which is a deliberate post-quantum floor. No RFC requires this and none forbids it. |
| Hybrid key share large enough to split the Initial across packets | RFC 9000 §8.1, §14.1, RFC 9001 §4.4 | Pass | Recovered and completed the follow-up request. |
| Server selects a key exchange group the client never offered | RFC 8446 §4.1.3, §4.2.8, RFC 9001 §4.8 | Inconclusive | The handshake did not complete, so the group was not accepted, but nothing arrived to say the client rejected it deliberately. RFC 9001 §4.8 carries a TLS alert in a CONNECTION_CLOSE and none was seen; a close that was never sent and one that was lost look the same from here. |
| Hybrid key share with an intact X25519 half and a corrupt ML-KEM half | draft-ietf-tls-hybrid-design §3.2, RFC 8446 §4.1.3 | Pass | Responded correctly: did not complete the handshake (timed out). The shared secret is both halves through the key schedule, so a corrupt ML-KEM half must break it -- and this client did not fall back to the intact X25519 half. |
| GREASE named group a client must tolerate | RFC 8701 §4, RFC 8446 §4.2.7 | Inconclusive | This test's anomaly is not implemented yet, so the run proves nothing about it either way. |
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