[tor-bugs] #33527 [Core Tor/Tor]: Write walking onions specification

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#33527: Write walking onions specification
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     Reporter:  gaba     |      Owner:  nickm
         Type:  project  |     Status:  assigned
     Priority:  Medium   |  Milestone:
    Component:  Core     |    Version:
  Tor/Tor                |   Keywords:  walking-onions network-team-
     Severity:  Normal   |  roadmap-2020Q1
Actual Points:           |  Parent ID:
       Points:  16       |   Reviewer:
      Sponsor:           |
  Sponsor69              |
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 Walking onions is a set of protocols improving scalability for the Tor
 network by enabling constant-size scaling of the information each client
 must download. Walking Onions will allow us to remove nearly all directory
 overhead from the Tor protocol, enabling Tor to scale to many more clients
 and relays, with no reduction in security.

 The proposal is at
 https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/proposals/300-walking-
 onions.txt

 This ticket is a complete, byte-level specification of the Walking Onions
 design, in sufficient detail to permit independent implementations of
 Walking Onions to interoperate. This will include a description of all new
 directory formats, all new wire protocols, all new client and relay
 behaviors, and all backward compatibility mechanisms.

 Activities:

  * Write an initial draft of specification, identifying unknowns and
 options in the design.
  * Distribute draft to tor-dev mailing list and to researchers for
 comment.
  * Take decisions on all unknowns and options; if uncertainty remains.
  * Write or locate reference-implementations for any primitive operations
 not already used by Tor.Write reference implementations for all novel
 encodings/decodings.

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