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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/spec/dir-spec.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/spec/dir-spec.txt b/doc/spec/dir-spec.txt index b95f23531b..a6c4623f8a 100644 --- a/doc/spec/dir-spec.txt +++ b/doc/spec/dir-spec.txt @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ $Id$ downloads consisted mainly of router descriptors that clients already had. - * Every directory authorities was a trust bottleneck: if a single + * Every directory authority was a trust bottleneck: if a single directory authority lied, it could make clients believe for a time an arbitrarily distorted view of the Tor network. (Clients trusted the most recent signed document they downloaded.) Thus, @@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ $Id$ Routers may act as directory caches to reduce load on the directory authorities. They announce this in their descriptors. - Periodically, each directory authority periodically generates a view of + Periodically, each directory authority generates a view of the current descriptors and status for known routers. They send a signed summary of this view (a "status vote") to the other authorities. The authorities compute the result of this vote, and sign |