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Filename: 105-handshake-revision.txt
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Title: Version negotiation for the Tor protocol.
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Version: $Revision$
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Last-Modified: $Date$
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Author: Nick Mathewson, Roger Dingledine
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Created:
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Status: Open
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Overview:
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This document was extracted from a modified version of tor-spec.txt that we
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had written before the proposal system went into place. It adds two new
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cells types to the Tor link connection setup handshake: one used for
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version negotiation, and another to prevent MITM attacks.
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This is an open proposal.
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Proposal:
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1.0. Version numbers
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The node-to-node TLS-based "OR connection" protocol and the multi-hop
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"circuit" protocol are versioned quasi-independently. (Certain versions
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of the circuit protocol may require a minimum version of the connection
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protocol to be used.)
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Version numbers are incremented for backward-incompatible protocol changes
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only. Backward-compatible changes are generally implemented by adding
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additional fields to existing structures; implementations MUST ignore
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fields they do not expect.
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2.1. VERSIONS cells
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When a Tor connection is established, both parties normally send a
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VERSIONS cell before sending any other cells. (But see below.)
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NumVersions [1 byte]
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Versions [NumVersions bytes]
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"Versions" is a sequence of NumVersions link connection protocol versions,
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each one byte long. Parties should list all of the versions which they
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are able and willing to support. Parties can only communicate if they
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have some connection protocol version in common.
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Version 0.1.x.y-alpha and earlier don't understand VERSIONS cells,
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and therefore don't support version negotiation. Thus, waiting until
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the other side has sent a VERSIONS cell won't work for these servers:
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if they send no cells back, it is impossible to tell whether they
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have sent a VERSIONS cell that has been stalled, or whether they have
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dropped our own VERSIONS cell as unrecognized. Thus, immediately after
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a TLS connection has been established, the parties check whether the
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other side has an obsolete certificate (organizationName equal to "Tor"
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or "TOR"). If the other party presented an obsolete certificate,
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we assume a v1 connection. Otherwise, both parties send VERSIONS
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cells listing all their supported versions. Upon receiving the
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other party's VERSIONS cell, the implementation begins using the
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highest-valued version common to both cells. If the first cell from
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the other party is _not_ a VERSIONS cell, we assume a v1 protocol.
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Implementations MUST discard cells that are not the first cells sent on a
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connection.
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2.2. MITM-prevention and time checking
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If we negotiate a v2 connection or higher, the first cell we send SHOULD
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be a NETINFO cell. Implementations SHOULD NOT send NETINFO cells at other
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times.
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A NETINFO cell contains:
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Timestamp [4 bytes]
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This OR's address [variable]
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Other OR's address [variable]
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Timestamp is the OR's current Unix time, in seconds since the epoch. If
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an implementation receives time values from many validated ORs that
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indicate that its clock is skewed, it SHOULD try to warn the
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administrator.
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Each address contains Type/Length/Value as used in Section 6.4. The first
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address is the address of the interface the party sending the VERSIONS cell
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used to connect to or accept connections from the other -- we include it
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to block a man-in-the-middle attack on TLS that lets an attacker bounce
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traffic through his own computers to enable timing and packet-counting
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attacks.
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The second address is the one that the party sending the VERSIONS cell
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believes the other has -- it can be used to learn what your IP address
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is if you have no other hints.
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