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author | teor <teor@torproject.org> | 2018-07-20 11:44:29 +1000 |
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committer | Nick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org> | 2018-07-30 10:10:02 -0400 |
commit | 46bc41bb1b0c00ec4b898d03f936d5c9d9c3fdef (patch) | |
tree | a8090d63e07aabd99858d565fb5bf808bf646500 /tor-spec.txt | |
parent | 42d93671d424d4811fbebc8f283326634db51045 (diff) | |
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tor-spec: Prop#289: RELAY cell padding should be randomised
Updates tor-spec for 26871
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diff --git a/tor-spec.txt b/tor-spec.txt index 666bc93..114d13c 100644 --- a/tor-spec.txt +++ b/tor-spec.txt @@ -482,9 +482,24 @@ see tor-design.pdf. drop the cell. Since more cell types may be added in the future, ORs should generally not warn when encountering unrecognized commands. - The cell is padded up to the cell length with padding bytes. Senders - SHOULD set padding bytes to NUL and receivers MUST ignore their - value. + The cell is padded up to the cell length with padding bytes. + + Senders set padding bytes depending on the cell's command: + VERSIONS: Payload MUST NOT contain padding bytes. + AUTHORIZE: Payload is unspecified and reserved for future use. + Other variable-length cells: + Payload MAY contain padding bytes at the end of the cell. + Padding bytes SHOULD be set to NUL. + RELAY: Payload MUST be padded to PAYLOAD_LEN with padding bytes. + Padding bytes SHOULD be set to random values. + Other fixed-length cells: + Payload MUST be padded to PAYLOAD_LEN with padding bytes. + Padding bytes SHOULD be set to NUL. + We recommend random padding in RELAY cells, so that cell content is + unpredictable. See proposal 289 for details. For non-RELAY cells, TLS + authenticates cell content, so randomised padding bytes are redundant. + + Receivers MUST ignore padding bytes. PADDING cells are currently used to implement connection keepalive. If there is no other traffic, ORs and OPs send one another a PADDING |