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The original article says:

Can attacker access only 64k of the memory? There is no total of 64 kilobytes limitation to the attack, that limit applies only to a single heartbeat. Attacker can either keep reconnecting or during an active TLS connection keep requesting arbitrary number of 64 kilobyte chunks of memory content until enough secrets are revealed.

...so I guess the answer to 2 is only limited by how frequently you can change the heartbeat settings, and how frequently OpenSSL will send a heartbeat packet.



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