Round 10 — supersedes the typed-exception approach from round 9.
Round 9 introduced [PskRejectedException] as a "punt to the application
layer" hack, with a comment claiming the in-place fallback was too
subtle to land safely. After tracing the actual derivation path the
fix turns out to be one line.
The key observation: the on-wire ClientHello (with `pre_shared_key`
extension and binder bytes) goes into BOTH client and server
transcript hashes regardless of accept / reject (RFC 8446 §4.2.11).
The transcript hash itself doesn't need any rebuild. The ONLY thing
that differs between accept and reject is how [earlySecret] is
derived:
* accepted: HKDF-Extract(0, PSK)
* rejected: HKDF-Extract(0, 0) ← same as no-resumption path
So when the server returns ServerHello without `pre_shared_key`,
we simply call `keySchedule.deriveEarly()` to overwrite the
PSK-derived [earlySecret] with the zero-keyed value. [deriveHandshake]
runs immediately after with the new earlySecret + ECDHE shared
secret, and the handshake proceeds along the regular non-resumption
path (which is well-tested by every non-resumption test in the
suite).
* `pskAccepted = false` so the
WAITING_CERTIFICATE_OR_FINISHED state correctly demands
Certificate + CertificateVerify (a Finished without those would
still be rejected as unauthenticated).
* Any 0-RTT packets the application emitted under the
PSK-derived [clientEarlyTrafficSecret] are lost — server can't
decrypt them and EncryptedExtensions arrives without the
early_data extension, so [earlyDataAccepted] = false. The
application layer is responsible for replaying any 0-RTT-bound
payload over 1-RTT. The handshake itself proceeds cleanly.
* [PskRejectedException] (added in round 9) deleted as dead code.
[QuicCodecException] reverts to a `final` class.
All 269 :quic:jvmTest tests pass. The fallback re-uses the
deriveEarly() codepath that every non-resumption test exercises,
so test coverage is implicit in the existing suite.
https://claude.ai/code/session_01AhGvbMV8uPRse3TmAGaddM
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