From 5d35da4dd9298c4171eea420a8290025d9555b10 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ian Jackson Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2022 19:23:17 +0100 Subject: Document channel padding stop timeout field values I UTSL C-tor and it memsets the thing to zero and then fails to write these timeout fields. We should recommend that other implementations do the same. --- tor-spec.txt | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/tor-spec.txt b/tor-spec.txt index 234d209..7dd5ab7 100644 --- a/tor-spec.txt +++ b/tor-spec.txt @@ -2046,6 +2046,9 @@ see tor-design.pdf. (If any party receives an out-of-range value, they clamp it so that it is in-range.) + For the stop padding command, the timeout fields should be sent as + zero (to avoid client distinguishability) and ignored by the recipient. + For more details on padding behavior, see padding-spec.txt. 7.3. Circuit-level flow control -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf