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		tedchs on April 11, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Xkcd: Heartbleed Explanation 64k is the max value of a 2-byte unsigned int, as 2^16 - 1 = 65535; is that the size of the length prefix?

stackcollision on April 11, 2014 [–]

I looked at the code and I'm pretty sure I saw that the payload size variable was a long int, so I was confused by this too.

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