[or-cvs] point out two parts where the spec is wrong
Roger Dingledine
arma at seul.org
Wed Oct 20 18:39:08 UTC 2004
Update of /home/or/cvsroot/doc
In directory moria.mit.edu:/home2/arma/work/onion/cvs/doc
Modified Files:
tor-doc.html tor-spec.txt
Log Message:
point out two parts where the spec is wrong
Index: tor-doc.html
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RCS file: /home/or/cvsroot/doc/tor-doc.html,v
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--- tor-doc.html 21 Sep 2004 22:12:27 -0000 1.12
+++ tor-doc.html 20 Oct 2004 18:39:05 -0000 1.13
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@
<p>If you have less than 1Mbit in both directions, you should stay
a client. Otherwise, please consider being a server, to help out the
-network. (Currently each server uses 20-30 gigabytes of traffic
+network. (Currently each server uses 20-150 gigabytes of traffic
per month; but that may go up.)</p>
<p>Note that you can be a server without allowing users to make
Index: tor-spec.txt
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RCS file: /home/or/cvsroot/doc/tor-spec.txt,v
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--- tor-spec.txt 25 Sep 2004 06:26:59 -0000 1.65
+++ tor-spec.txt 20 Oct 2004 18:39:05 -0000 1.66
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@
support any suite without ephemeral keys, symmetric keys of at
least 128 bits, and digests of at least 160 bits.
+[what kind of cert does an OP send? -RD]
An OR always sends a two-certificate chain, consisting of a self-signed
certificate containing the OR's identity key, and a second certificate
using a short-term connection key. The commonName of the second
@@ -95,6 +96,7 @@
OR-to-OR connections are never deliberately closed. When an OR
starts or receives a new directory, it tries to open new
connections to any OR it is not already connected to.
+[not true, unused OR conns close after 5 mins too -RD]
OR-to-OP connections are not permanent. An OP should close a
connection to an OR if there are no circuits running over the
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