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authorteor (Tim Wilson-Brown) <teor2345@gmail.com>2016-04-28 15:37:59 +1000
committerNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2016-05-05 08:16:28 -0400
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Make clients always use begindir for directory requests
This improves client anonymity and avoids directory header tampering. The extra load on the authorities should be offset by the fallback directories feature. This also simplifies the fixes to #18809.
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+ o Minor features (clients):
+ - Make clients, onion services, and bridge relays always
+ use an encrypted begindir connection for directory requests.
+ Resolves #18483. Patch by "teor".