[or-cvs] write at the top of rend-spec that reading the design paper
Roger Dingledine
arma at seul.org
Tue Jan 18 00:10:03 UTC 2005
Update of /home2/or/cvsroot/tor/doc
In directory moria.mit.edu:/home2/arma/work/onion/cvs/tor/doc
Modified Files:
rend-spec.txt
Log Message:
write at the top of rend-spec that reading the design paper
first will be helpful.
Index: rend-spec.txt
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RCS file: /home2/or/cvsroot/tor/doc/rend-spec.txt,v
retrieving revision 1.24
retrieving revision 1.25
diff -u -d -r1.24 -r1.25
--- rend-spec.txt 27 Nov 2004 05:23:59 -0000 1.24
+++ rend-spec.txt 18 Jan 2005 00:10:00 -0000 1.25
@@ -1,13 +1,12 @@
$Id$
-[XXX We need to make nicknames in intro* cells padded to 20
- bytes, and maybe have a fixed length for nicknames in the
- descriptor too -RD]
-
Tor Rendezvous Specification
0. Overview and preliminaries
+ Read http://tor.eff.org/doc/design-paper/tor-design.html#sec:rendezvous
+ before you read this specification. It will make more sense.
+
Rendezvous points provide location-hidden services (server
anonymity) for the onion routing network. With rendezvous points,
Bob can offer a TCP service (say, a webserver) via the onion
@@ -126,8 +125,7 @@
The members of Ipt may be either (a) nicknames, or (b) identity key
digests, encoded in hex, and prefixed with a '$'. Clients must
accept both forms. Services must only generate the second form.
- Once 0.0.8.1 and 0.0.9pre3-4 are obsoleted, we can drop the first
- form.
+ Once 0.0.9.x is obsoleted, we can drop the first form.
[It's ok for Bob to advertise 0 introduction points. He might want
to do that if he previously advertised some introduction points,
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