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| author | Nick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org> | 2017-05-04 11:33:52 -0400 |
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| committer | Nick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org> | 2017-05-04 11:33:52 -0400 |
| commit | 3825d0733a05283eae0ab84410593c4e72757857 (patch) | |
| tree | 1fd05fc8b17927872349277e5dc3d13e1a923ac5 /proposals/140-consensus-diffs.txt | |
| parent | 7c572377db2d25c2f6cd90cad13d6b72d5449436 (diff) | |
| download | torspec-3825d0733a05283eae0ab84410593c4e72757857.tar.gz torspec-3825d0733a05283eae0ab84410593c4e72757857.zip | |
prop140: kill off digest prefixes.
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/proposals/140-consensus-diffs.txt b/proposals/140-consensus-diffs.txt index 55db58f..5a8be3f 100644 --- a/proposals/140-consensus-diffs.txt +++ b/proposals/140-consensus-diffs.txt @@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ Status: Accepted consensus signatures would make clients identify which encodings they had been given as they asked for diffs. + 4-May-2017: Remove support for truncated digest prefixes. + 1. Overview. Tor clients and servers need a list of which relays are on the @@ -112,12 +114,8 @@ Status: Accepted authorities the client trusts. Servers will only return a consensus if more than half of the requested - authorities have signed the document, otherwise a 404 error will be sent - back. The fingerprints can be shortened to a length of any multiple of - two, using only the leftmost part of the encoded fingerprint. Tor uses - 3 bytes (6 hex characters) of the fingerprint. (This is just like the - conditional consensus downloads that Tor supports starting with - 0.1.2.1-alpha.) + authorities have signed the document. Otherwise, a 404 error will be sent + back. The advantage of using the same URL that is currently used for consensuses is that the client doesn't need to know whether a server |