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| author | Nick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org> | 2007-07-05 14:49:57 +0000 |
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| committer | Nick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org> | 2007-07-05 14:49:57 +0000 |
| commit | 92b0fc2e5339dbf6cb7281915d89d73d78257022 (patch) | |
| tree | 9dc39c9cab4b8068914f460173f0a6bc73e1e17e /doc/spec | |
| parent | 3e75cf7b57131c3c8dd1a7d310e78fb510c9268f (diff) | |
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r13451@kushana: nickm | 2007-06-20 09:43:26 -0400
Fix typos and clarify points in dir-spec. Patch from Karsten.
svn:r10736
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/spec')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/spec/dir-spec.txt | 13 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/doc/spec/dir-spec.txt b/doc/spec/dir-spec.txt index eccd9dba86..8f67044741 100644 --- a/doc/spec/dir-spec.txt +++ b/doc/spec/dir-spec.txt @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ $Id$ that served signed "directory" documents containing a list of signed "router descriptors", along with short summary of the status of each router. Thus, clients could get up-to-date information on the state of - the network automatically, and be certain that they list they were getting + the network automatically, and be certain that the list they were getting was attested by a trusted directory authority. Later versions (0.0.8) added directory caches, which download @@ -95,9 +95,10 @@ $Id$ issues: * A great deal of bandwidth used to transmit router descriptors was - used by two fields that are not actually used by Tor routers. We - save about 60% by moving them into a separate document that most - clients do not fetch or use. + used by two fields that are not actually used by Tor routers + (namely read-history and write-history). We save about 60% by + moving them into a separate document that most clients do not + fetch or use. * It was possible under certain perverse circumstances for clients to download an unusual set of network status documents, thus @@ -203,7 +204,7 @@ $Id$ following lightweight extensible information format. The highest level object is a Document, which consists of one or more - Items. Every Item begins with a KeywordLine, followed by one or more + Items. Every Item begins with a KeywordLine, followed by zero or more Objects. A KeywordLine begins with a Keyword, optionally followed by whitespace and more non-newline characters, and ends with a newline. A Keyword is a sequence of one or more characters in the set [A-Za-z0-9-]. @@ -979,7 +980,7 @@ $Id$ The signatures at the end of a consensus document are sorted in ascending order by identity digest. -3.4. Detached signatures +3.5. Detached signatures Assuming full connectivity, every authority should compute and sign the same consensus directory in each period. Therefore, it isn't necessary to |