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authorNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2021-08-16 11:12:17 -0400
committerNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2021-08-16 11:19:11 -0400
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Clarify behavior on out-of-bounds link padding parameters.
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@@ -1954,9 +1954,11 @@ see tor-design.pdf.
field is either 1 (stop padding) or 2 (start padding). For the start
padding command, a pair of timeout values specifying a low and a high
range bounds for randomized padding timeouts may be specified as unsigned
- integer values in milliseconds. The ito_low_ms field must not be lower than
- the current consensus parameter value for nf_ito_low (default: 1500).
- ito_high_ms must be greater than ito_low_ms.
+ integer values in milliseconds. The ito_low_ms field should not be lower
+ than the current consensus parameter value for nf_ito_low (default:
+ 1500). The ito_high_ms field must should not be lower than ito_low_ms.
+ (If any party receives an out-of-range value, they clamp it so
+ that it is in-range.)
For more details on padding behavior, see padding-spec.txt.