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r13451@kushana: nickm | 2007-06-20 09:43:26 -0400

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Fix typos and clarify points in dir-spec. Patch from Karsten.


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@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ $Id$
that served signed "directory" documents containing a list of signed
"router descriptors", along with short summary of the status of each
router. Thus, clients could get up-to-date information on the state of
the network automatically, and be certain that they list they were getting
the network automatically, and be certain that the list they were getting
was attested by a trusted directory authority.
Later versions (0.0.8) added directory caches, which download
@ -95,9 +95,10 @@ $Id$
issues:
* A great deal of bandwidth used to transmit router descriptors was
used by two fields that are not actually used by Tor routers. We
save about 60% by moving them into a separate document that most
clients do not fetch or use.
used by two fields that are not actually used by Tor routers
(namely read-history and write-history). We save about 60% by
moving them into a separate document that most clients do not
fetch or use.
* It was possible under certain perverse circumstances for clients
to download an unusual set of network status documents, thus
@ -203,7 +204,7 @@ $Id$
following lightweight extensible information format.
The highest level object is a Document, which consists of one or more
Items. Every Item begins with a KeywordLine, followed by one or more
Items. Every Item begins with a KeywordLine, followed by zero or more
Objects. A KeywordLine begins with a Keyword, optionally followed by
whitespace and more non-newline characters, and ends with a newline. A
Keyword is a sequence of one or more characters in the set [A-Za-z0-9-].
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The signatures at the end of a consensus document are sorted in
ascending order by identity digest.
3.4. Detached signatures
3.5. Detached signatures
Assuming full connectivity, every authority should compute and sign the
same consensus directory in each period. Therefore, it isn't necessary to