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| author | Roger Dingledine <arma@torproject.org> | 2006-02-04 20:07:45 +0000 |
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| committer | Roger Dingledine <arma@torproject.org> | 2006-02-04 20:07:45 +0000 |
| commit | 67a77f17caa215cd2b01b379f2173d082c6632e9 (patch) | |
| tree | 07eb5138d7b94fa7ebb07e82f05634ceea7c5a06 | |
| parent | d222678ea5c07cdd3e946b4f8ae553c750f1c0ee (diff) | |
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i'm not sure what man-in-the-middle attacks we were worried about,
but i agree that we don't need to worry about them for rendezvousing.
what we really meant was collision attacks. i think?
svn:r5909
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/rend-spec.txt b/doc/rend-spec.txt index cc77516585..3825dd6d33 100644 --- a/doc/rend-spec.txt +++ b/doc/rend-spec.txt @@ -254,9 +254,9 @@ $Id$ 2. Generate a 16-character encoding of H', using base32 as defined in RFC 3548. - (We only use 80 bits instead of the 160 bits from SHA1 because we don't - need to worry about man-in-the-middle attacks, and because it will make - handling the url's more convenient.) + (We only use 80 bits instead of the 160 bits from SHA1 because we + don't need to worry about arbitrary collisions, and because it will + make handling the url's more convenient.) The string "x", if present, is the base-32 encoding of the authentication/authorization required by the introduction point. |