From 68f086a181d48446125b6edeb200779fa7c8866c 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(+) (limited to 'tor-spec.txt') diff --git a/tor-spec.txt b/tor-spec.txt index 8ab16d8..b42ee26 100644 --- a/tor-spec.txt +++ b/tor-spec.txt @@ -2086,6 +2086,9 @@ 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