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diff --git a/spec/tor-spec/system-overview.md b/spec/tor-spec/system-overview.md index 8577928..f05b893 100644 --- a/spec/tor-spec/system-overview.md +++ b/spec/tor-spec/system-overview.md @@ -5,10 +5,7 @@ Tor is a distributed overlay network designed to anonymize low-latency TCP-based applications such as web browsing, secure shell, and instant messaging. Clients choose a path through the network and -build a ``circuit'', in which each node (or``onion router'' or ``OR'') -in the path knows its predecessor and successor, but no other nodes in -the circuit. Traffic flowing down the circuit is sent in fixed-size -``cells'', which are unwrapped by a symmetric key at each node (like +build a `circuit'', in which each node (or`onion router'' or `OR'') in the path knows its predecessor and successor, but no other nodes in the circuit. Traffic flowing down the circuit is sent in fixed-size `cells'', which are unwrapped by a symmetric key at each node (like the layers of an onion) and relayed downstream. <a id="tor-spec.txt-1.1"></a> @@ -60,7 +57,7 @@ These are 1024-bit RSA keys: KP_link_ed, KS_link_ed. ``` -KP_relayid_* together identify a router uniquely. Once a router +KP_relayid\_\* together identify a router uniquely. Once a router has used a KP_relayid_ed (an Ed25519 master identity key) together with a given KP_relayid_rsa (RSA identity key), neither of those keys may ever be used with a different key. |