write at the top of rend-spec that reading the design paper

first will be helpful.


svn:r3363
This commit is contained in:
Roger Dingledine 2005-01-18 00:10:00 +00:00
parent ea24dc31bc
commit c8c6af659d

View File

@ -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 @@ $Id$
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,