[tor-commits] [torspec/main] dir-spec: Add 'Table of contents'
dgoulet at torproject.org
dgoulet at torproject.org
Mon Sep 27 13:28:22 UTC 2021
commit 4d4feeab4d4f873fc8533bf987e447175b12ef05
Author: Oleh Franchuk <0x00.gear at gmail.com>
Date: Mon Aug 23 19:30:02 2021 +0300
dir-spec: Add 'Table of contents'
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Tor directory protocol, version 3
+Table of Contents
+
+ 0. Scope and preliminaries
+ 0.1. History
+ 0.2. Goals of the version 3 protoc
+ 0.3. Some Remaining questions
+ 1. Outline
+ 1.1. What's different from version 2?
+ 1.2. Document meta-format
+ 1.3. Signing documents
+ 1.4. Voting timeline
+ 2. Router operation and formats
+ 2.1. Uploading server descriptors and extra-info documents
+ 2.1.1. Server descriptor format
+ 2.1.2. Extra-info document format
+ 2.1.3. Nonterminals in server descriptors
+ 3. Directory authority operation and formats
+ 3.1. Creating key certificates
+ 3.2. Accepting server descriptor and extra-info document uploads
+ 3.3. Computing microdescriptors
+ 3.4. Exchanging votes
+ 3.4.1. Vote and consensus status document formats
+ 3.4.2. Assigning flags in a vote
+ 3.4.3. Serving bandwidth list files
+ 3.5. Downloading missing certificates from other directory authorities
+ 3.6. Downloading server descriptors from other directory authorities
+ 3.7. Downloading extra-info documents from other directory authorities
+ 3.8. Computing a consensus from a set of votes
+ 3.8.0.1. Deciding which Ids to include.
+ 3.8.0.2. Deciding which descriptors to include
+ 3.8.1. Forward compatibility
+ 3.8.2. Encoding port lists
+ 3.8.3. Computing Bandwidth Weights
+ 3.9. Computing consensus flavors
+ 3.9.1. ns consensus
+ 3.9.2. Microdescriptor consensus
+ 3.10. Exchanging detached signatures
+ 3.11. Publishing the signed consensus
+ 4. Directory cache operation
+ 4.1. Downloading consensus status documents from directory authorities
+ 4.2. Downloading server descriptors from directory authorities
+ 4.3. Downloading microdescriptors from directory authorities
+ 4.4. Downloading extra-info documents from directory authorities
+ 4.5. Consensus diffs
+ 4.5.1. Consensus diff format
+ 4.5.2. Serving and requesting diff
+ 4.6 Retrying failed downloads
+ 5. Client operation
+ 5.1. Downloading network-status documents
+ 5.2. Downloading server descriptors or microdescriptors
+ 5.3. Downloading extra-info documents
+ 5.4. Using directory information
+ 5.4.1. Choosing routers for circuits.
+ 5.4.2. Managing naming
+ 5.4.3. Software versions
+ 5.4.4. Warning about a router's status.
+ 5.5. Retrying failed downloads
+ 6. Standards compliance
+ 6.1. HTTP headers
+ 6.2. HTTP status codes
+ A. Consensus-negotiation timeline.
+ B. General-use HTTP URLs
+ C. Converting a curve25519 public key to an ed25519 public key
+ D. Inferring missing proto lines.
+ E. Limited ed diff format
+
0. Scope and preliminaries
This directory protocol is used by Tor version 0.2.0.x-alpha and later.
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