[TWN team] Recent changes to the wiki pages
Lunar
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Wed Dec 4 00:40:07 UTC 2013
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version 50
Author: arma
Date: 2013-12-04T00:05:53+00:00
change tense for clarity
--- version 49
+++ version 50
@@ -46,8 +46,8 @@
SHA1 to prefer Ed25519, Curve25519, and SHA256 as the cryptographic
primitives (section 0.3).
-The selection of directories responsible for a hidden service now
-depends on a periodic “collaboratively generated random value” provided
+The selection of directories responsible for a hidden service will now
+depend on a periodic “collaboratively generated random value” provided
by the Tor directory authorities. This way the directories of a hidden
service are not predictable in advance, which prevents targeted denial
of service attacks (see ticket #8244 [5] and proposal 225 for a possible
version 49
Author: arma
Date: 2013-12-04T00:04:39+00:00
remove some words for better flow
--- version 48
+++ version 49
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
the current hidden services protocol is the new address format. In order
to prevent the enumeration of hidden services, the new protocol derives a
“blinded key” (section 1.3) from an Ed25519 master identity key.
-The blinding operation operates on the full key material (and
+The blinding operation operates on the full key (and
not just a truncated hash, as before). With a base 32 encoding of the
entire 256 bits (section 1.2), “a new name following this specification
might look like:
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
Less visible changes include the departure from RSA1024, DH1024, and
SHA1 to prefer Ed25519, Curve25519, and SHA256 as the cryptographic
-primitives in use (section 0.3).
+primitives (section 0.3).
The selection of directories responsible for a hidden service now
depends on a periodic “collaboratively generated random value” provided
version 48
Author: arma
Date: 2013-12-04T00:03:06+00:00
grammar
--- version 47
+++ version 48
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
the current hidden services protocol is the new address format. In order
to prevent the enumeration of hidden services, the new protocol derives a
“blinded key” (section 1.3) from an Ed25519 master identity key.
-The blinding operation requires to operate on the full key material (and
+The blinding operation operates on the full key material (and
not just a truncated hash, as before). With a base 32 encoding of the
entire 256 bits (section 1.2), “a new name following this specification
might look like:
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