[tor-commits] [torspec/master] Change clause about recognized to 'may'

[nickm at torproject.org]

commit e4b7001bdfaf08f533f2716ac464f11792afc296
Author: Damian Johnson <atagar at torproject.org>
Date:   Thu Feb 8 10:02:39 2018 -0800

    Change clause about recognized to 'may'
    
    Good point from Roger and Tim on...
    
      https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/25171
---
 tor-spec.txt | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tor-spec.txt b/tor-spec.txt
index 2272c28..7aba3da 100644
--- a/tor-spec.txt
+++ b/tor-spec.txt
@@ -1446,8 +1446,9 @@ see tor-design.pdf.
    The 'recognized' field is used for a simple indication for if the
    cell still encrypted or not. When sending cells the unencrypted
    'recognized' MUST be set to zero. When receiving and decrypting
-   cells the 'recognized' will be zero if we're the endpoint the cell
-   is destined for, and non-zero otherwise.
+   cells the 'recognized' MAY be zero if we're the endpoint the cell
+   is destined for (there's a 1/2^32 chance of encrypted bytes
+   coincidently being zero), and non-zero otherwise.
 
    When 'recognized' in an unencrypted relay payload is zero the
    'digest' field is computed as the first four bytes of the running