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Changes in version 0.1.1.13-alpha - 2006-02-09
o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
- When you tried to setconf ORPort via the controller, Tor would
crash. So people using TorCP to become a server were sad.
- Solve (I hope) the stack-smashing bug that we were seeing on fast
servers. The problem appears to be something do with OpenSSL's
random number generation, or how we call it, or something. Let me
know if the crashes continue.
- Turn crypto hardware acceleration off by default, until we find
somebody smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce
seg faults in at least some cases.)
- Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
"Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed"
o Major fixes:
- Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robining in 16 KB
chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
try to be a bit more fair.
- Dir authorities and mirrors were never expiring the newest
descriptor for each server, causing memory and directory bloat.
- Fix memory-bloating and connection-bloating bug on servers: We
were never closing any connection that had ever had a circuit on
it, because we were checking conn->n_circuits == 0, yet we had a
bug that let it go negative.
- Make Tor work using squid as your http proxy again -- squid returns
an error if you ask for a URL that's too long, and it uses a really
generic error message. Plus, many people are behind a transparent
squid so they don't even realize it.
- On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
- Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults to 1.
This means all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
o Major features:
- Clients not longer download descriptors for non-running descriptors.
- Before we add new directory authorities, we should make it
clear that only v1 authorities should receive/publish hidden
service descriptors.
o Minor features:
- As soon as we've fetched some more directory info, immediately
try to download more server descriptors. This way we don't have
a 10 second pause during initial bootstrapping.
- Remove even more loud log messages that the server operator can't
do anything about.
- When we're running an obsolete or un-recommended version, make
the log message more clear about what the problem is and what
versions *are* still recommended.
- Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
- Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this will
pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
- When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
- Adjust tor-spec to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now Ian
Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more easily.
- MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
- Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
- Make dirservers generate a separate "guard" flag to mean,
"would make a good entry guard". Make clients parse it and vote
on it. Not used by clients yet.
- Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Also, improve
search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
- Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB
- Only start testing reachability once we've established a
circuit. This will make startup on dirservers less noisy.
- Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
established a circuit.
- Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like it
just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and .onion
idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure that the
controller hears about new and closing connections.
Changes in version 0.1.1.12-alpha - 2006-01-11
o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
- The fix to close duplicate server connections was closing all
Tor client connections if they didn't establish a circuit
quickly enough. Oops.
- Fix minor memory issue (double-free) that happened on exit.
o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
- Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
Changes in version 0.1.1.11-alpha - 2006-01-10
o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
- Include all the assert/crash fixes from 0.1.0.16.
- If you start Tor and then quit very quickly, there were some
races that tried to free things that weren't allocated yet.
- Fix a rare memory stomp if you're running hidden services.
- Fix segfault when specifying DirServer in config without nickname.
- Fix a seg fault when you finish connecting to a server but at
that moment you dump his server descriptor.
- Extendcircuit and Attachstream controller commands would
assert/crash if you don't give them enough arguments.
- Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by weasel).
- If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you HUP,
it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc using -f.
o Major features:
- Implement "entry guards": automatically choose a handful of entry
nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
(CVE-2006-0414)
- New directory logic: download by descriptor digest, not by
fingerprint. Caches try to download all listed digests from
authorities; clients try to download "best" digests from caches.
This avoids partitioning and isolating attacks better.
- Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
connections more reliable.
o Major fixes:
- Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
- Tor 0.1.1.9 and 0.1.1.10 had a serious bug that caused clients
to download certain server descriptors, throw them away, and then
fetch them again after 30 minutes. Now mirrors throw away these
server descriptors so clients can't get them.
- We were leaving duplicate connections to other ORs open for a week,
rather than closing them once we detect a duplicate. This only
really affected authdirservers, but it affected them a lot.
- Spread the authdirservers' reachability testing over the entire
testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once every
20 minutes.
o Minor fixes:
- If the network is down, and we try to connect to a conn because
we have a circuit in mind, and we timeout (30 seconds) because the
network never answers, we were expiring the circuit, but we weren't
obsoleting the connection or telling the entry_guards functions.
- Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These statistics
need to be uint64_t's.
- Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
on malicious huge inputs. I don't see any, but I haven't looked
carefully.
- ReachableAddresses kept growing new "reject *:*" lines on every
setconf/reload.
- When you "setconf log" via the controller, it should remove all
logs. We were automatically adding back in a "log notice stdout".
- Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
- We were marking servers down when they could not answer every piece
of the directory request we sent them. This was far too harsh.
- Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
connections.
- Directory authorities now go to the proper authority when asking for
a networkstatus, even when they want a compressed one.
- Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
"Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
- Authorities were treating their own descriptor changes as cosmetic,
meaning the descriptor available in the network-status and the
descriptor that clients downloaded were different.
- The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
- Workaround a problem with some http proxies where they refuse GET
requests that specify "Content-Length: 0" (reported by Adrian).
- Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
o Minor features:
- Write the TorVersion into the state file so we have a prayer of
keeping forward and backward compatibility.
- Revive the FascistFirewall config option rather than eliminating it:
now it's a synonym for ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443.
- Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
to bootstrap.
- Directory authorities ignore router descriptors that have only
cosmetic differences: do this for 0.1.0.x servers now too.
- Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
can answer v2 directory requests too.
- Authdirs now stop whining so loudly about bad descriptors that
they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's a log complaint,
it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
- Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
of fields.
- There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
- New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for auth dirservers as
a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
- Auth dir servers can now mark a fingerprint as "!reject" or
"!invalid" in the approved-routers file (as its nickname), to
refuse descriptors outright or include them but marked as invalid.
- Servers store bandwidth history across restarts/crashes.
- Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
- Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
docs. Now we can add new authdirservers and they'll be cached too.
- When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
are known.
- New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
Changes in version 0.1.1.10-alpha - 2005-12-11
o Correctness bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
- On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
- Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
- When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
- We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
- When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
- Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
connections once a week.
- When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
- Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
- When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed to
build with -ldl.
- Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
- We were failing to inform the controller about new .onion streams.
o Security bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
- Refuse server descriptors if the fingerprint line doesn't match
the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
- We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
don't recognize. Now we just drop it.
- Start obeying our firewall options more rigorously:
. If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
. Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
firewall options forbid.
. If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
can only proxy to certain destinations.
- Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
aids some statistical attacks.
- Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
- Take out the mis-feature where we tried to detect IP address
flapping for people with DynDNS, and chose not to upload a new
server descriptor sometimes.
- Try to be compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.6 again.
- Log fix: when the controller is logging about .onion addresses,
sometimes it didn't include the ".onion" part of the address.
- Don't try to modify options->DirServers internally -- if the
user didn't specify any, just add the default ones directly to
the trusted dirserver list. This fixes a bug where people running
controllers would use SETCONF on some totally unrelated config
option, and Tor would start yelling at them about changing their
DirServer lines.
- Let the controller's redirectstream command specify a port, in
case the controller wants to change that too.
- When we requested a pile of server descriptors, we sometimes
accidentally launched a duplicate request for the first one.
- Bugfix for trackhostexits: write down the fingerprint of the
chosen exit, not its nickname, because the chosen exit might not
be verified.
- When parsing foo.exit, if foo is unknown, and we are leaving
circuits unattached, set the chosen_exit field and leave the
address empty. This matters because controllers got confused
otherwise.
- Directory authorities no longer try to download server
descriptors that they know they will reject.
o Features and updates:
- Replace balanced trees with hash tables: this should make stuff
significantly faster.
- Resume using the AES counter-mode implementation that we ship,
rather than OpenSSL's. Ours is significantly faster.
- Many other CPU and memory improvements.
- Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
- Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see if their
applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
socks5-with-hostname. This way they don't have to keep mucking
with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
- Warn when listening on a public address for socks. I suspect a
lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
- Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
every single internal or nonroutable network space.
- Add a new controller event type that allows controllers to get
all server descriptors that were uploaded to a router in its role
as authoritative dirserver.
- Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
- Stop shipping tor-doc.html in the tarball.
Changes in version 0.1.1.9-alpha - 2005-11-15
o Usability improvements:
- Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
or port.
- Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
by default.
- Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
- Make directory servers return better http 404 error messages
instead of a generic "Servers unavailable".
- Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
- Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
memory leaks better.
- Make directory authorities be non-versioning, non-naming by
default. Now we can add new directory servers without requiring
their operators to pay close attention.
- When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
o Performance improvements:
- Directory servers now silently throw away new descriptors that
haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
- Inline bottleneck smartlist functions; use fast versions by default.
- Add a "Map from digest to void*" abstraction digestmap_t so we
can do less hex encoding/decoding. Use it in router_get_by_digest()
to resolve a performance bottleneck.
- Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
- Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
- The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
o Security improvements:
- Start making directory caches retain old routerinfos, so soon
clients can start asking by digest of descriptor rather than by
fingerprint of server.
- Add half our entropy from RAND_poll in OpenSSL. This knows how
to use egd (if present), openbsd weirdness (if present), vms/os2
weirdness (if we ever port there), and more in the future.
o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
- Do round-robin writes of at most 16 kB per write. This might be
more fair on loaded Tor servers, and it might resolve our Windows
crash bug. It might also slow things down.
- Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
each new connections. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
periodically, so it's not so bad.)
- When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
already present earlier in the circuit. Oops.
- When a Tor server's IP changes (e.g. from a dyndns address),
upload a new descriptor so clients will learn too.
- Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
- If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.8-alpha:
- Fix a big pile of memory leaks, some of them serious.
- Do not try to download a routerdesc if we would immediately reject
it as obsolete.
- Resume inserting a newline between all router descriptors when
generating (old style) signed directories, since our spec says
we do.
- When providing content-type application/octet-stream for
server descriptors using .z, we were leaving out the
content-encoding header. Oops. (Everything tolerated this just
fine, but that doesn't mean we need to be part of the problem.)
- Fix a potential seg fault in getconf and getinfo using version 1
of the controller protocol.
- Avoid crash: do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we
are suppressing it because of hibernation.
- Make --hash-password not crash on exit.
Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07
o New features (major):
- Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they
download and use network-statuses from the trusted dirservers,
and fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
See dir-spec.txt for all the gory details.
- Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
and either a) we could hibernate or b) our capacity is low and
we're using a default DirPort.
- Use OpenSSL's AES when OpenSSL has version 0.9.7 or later.
o New features (minor):
- Try to be smart about when to retry network-status and
server-descriptor fetches. Still needs some tuning.
- Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
mirrors still cache and serve it).
- Consider a threshold of versioning dirservers (dirservers who have
an opinion about which Tor versions are still recommended) before
deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
- Dirservers can now reject/invalidate by key and IP, with the
config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject". This is
useful since currently we automatically list servers as running
and usable even if we know they're jerks.
- Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer; move it out
of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
- Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section.
- Add nicknames to the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
- When we get an EOF or a timeout on a directory connection, note
how many bytes of serverdesc we are dropping. This will help
us determine whether it is smart to parse incomplete serverdesc
responses.
- Add a new function to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to stop
using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we don't
link new actions to old actions. Currently it's only called on
HUP (or SIGNAL RELOAD).
- On sighup, if UseHelperNodes changed to 1, use new circuits.
- Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
startup. And entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
o Fixes on 0.1.1.7-alpha:
- Nobody ever implemented EVENT_ADDRMAP for control protocol
version 0, so don't let version 0 controllers ask for it.
- If you requested something with too many newlines via the
v1 controller protocol, you could crash tor.
- Fix a number of memory leaks, including some pretty serious ones.
- Re-enable DirPort testing again, so Tor servers will be willing
to advertise their DirPort if it's reachable.
- On TLS handshake, only check the other router's nickname against
its expected nickname if is_named is set.
o Fixes forward-ported from 0.1.0.15:
- Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
- Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
- For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
through privoxy.
- We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
even when it's an IP in the "virtual" range we designed exactly
for this case.
- We were leaking some memory every time the client changes IPs.
- Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
- Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
warn when we'recalling a non-named server by its nickname;
don't warn twice about the same name.
- Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
if we've not heard of the server.
- Make windows platform detection (uname equivalent) smarter.
- It turns out sparc64 doesn't like unaligned access either.
Changes in version 0.1.1.7-alpha - 2005-09-14
o Fixes on 0.1.1.6-alpha:
- Exit servers were crashing when people asked them to make a
connection to an address not in their exit policy.
- Looking up a non-existent stream for a v1 control connection would
cause a segfault.
- Fix a seg fault if we ask a dirserver for a descriptor by
fingerprint but he doesn't know about him.
- SETCONF was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
- SETCONF SocksBindAddress killed Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
- Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
unreachability.
o New features:
- Add Peter Palfrader's check-tor script to tor/contrib/
It lets you easily check whether a given server (referenced by
nickname) is reachable by you.
- Numerous changes to move towards client-side v2 directories. Not
enabled yet.
o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
- If the user gave tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
[This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.]
- Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
- Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
we fail to connect).
- When writing the RecommendedVersions line, sort them first.
- When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
that anyway.
- Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
it was self-testing that told us so.
Changes in version 0.1.1.6-alpha - 2005-09-09
o Fixes on 0.1.1.5-alpha:
- We broke fascistfirewall in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
- Fix segfault in unit tests in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
- Fix bug with tor_memmem finding a match at the end of the string.
- Make unit tests run without segfaulting.
- Resolve some solaris x86 compile warnings.
- Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
- Fix bug where as soon as a server refused any requests due to his
exit policy (e.g. when we ask for localhost and he tells us that's
127.0.0.1 and he won't do it), we decided he wasn't obeying his
exit policy and stopped using him for any exits.
- Only do openssl hardware accelerator stuff if openssl version is
at least 0.9.7.
o New controller features/fixes:
- Add a "RESETCONF" command so you can set config options like
AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
- Add a "GETINFO config-file" to tell us where torrc is.
- Avoid sending blank lines when GETINFO replies should be empty.
- Add a QUIT command for the controller (for using it manually).
- Fix a bug in SAVECONF that was adding default dirservers and
other redundant entries to the torrc file.
o Start on the new directory design:
- Generate, publish, cache, serve new network-status format.
- Publish individual descriptors (by fingerprint, by "all", and by
"tell me yours").
- Publish client and server recommended versions separately.
- Allow tor_gzip_uncompress() to handle multiple concatenated
compressed strings. Serve compressed groups of router
descriptors. The compression logic here could be more
memory-efficient.
- Distinguish v1 authorities (all currently trusted directories)
from v2 authorities (all trusted directories).
- Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
- Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
moria1, moria2, and tor26 should set.
- Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
o New features:
- Dirservers now do their own external reachability testing of each
Tor server, and only list them as running if they've been found to
be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
- Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
if you can.
- Permit transitioning from ORPort=0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from the
controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
- Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
- Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
o Config option changes:
- Replace (Fascist)Firewall* config options with a new
ReachableAddresses option that understands address policies.
For example, "ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443"
- Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
- Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
- Reject ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy, since
people have started using them for spam too.
- It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
servers and dirservers bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
- Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for unverified routers.
- We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
- Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
services faster on the service end.
- Retry streams if the exit node sends back a 'misc' failure. This
should result in fewer random failures. Also, after failing
from resolve failed or misc, reset the num failures, so we give
it a fair shake next time we try.
- Clean up the rendezvous warn log msgs, and downgrade some to info.
- Reduce severity on logs about dns worker spawning and culling.
- When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
- Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
able to discover them.
- Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
- Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
are no longer allowed. This also fixes some potential security
problems with people providing hostnames as their address and then
preferentially resolving them to partition users.
- Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
testing for reachability.
- Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
to the torrc.
- Let auth dir servers start without specifying an Address config
option.
- Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
Changes in version 0.1.1.5-alpha - 2005-08-08
o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.14.
o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
- If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
it would silently using ignore the 6668.
Changes in version 0.1.1.4-alpha - 2005-08-04
o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.13.
o Features:
- Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
- Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
- Implement some more GETINFO goodness: expose helper nodes, config
options, getinfo keys.
Changes in version 0.1.1.3-alpha - 2005-07-25
o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
- Fix a bug in handling the controller's "post descriptor"
function.
- Fix several bugs in handling the controller's "extend circuit"
function.
- Fix a bug in handling the controller's "stream status" event.
- Fix an assert failure if we have a controller listening for
circuit events and we go offline.
- Re-allow hidden service descriptors to publish 0 intro points.
- Fix a crash when generating your hidden service descriptor if
you don't have enough intro points already.
o New features on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
- New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
many bytes we've used in this time period.
- Experimental support for helper nodes: a lot of the risk from
a small static adversary comes because users pick new random
nodes every time they rebuild a circuit. Now users will try to
stick to the same small set of entry nodes if they can. Not
enabled by default yet.
o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.12:
- If you're an auth dir server, always publish your dirport,
even if you haven't yet found yourself to be reachable.
- Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
Changes in version 0.1.1.2-alpha - 2005-07-14
o New directory servers:
- tor26 has changed IP address.
o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, crashes/leaks:
- Port the servers-not-obeying-their-exit-policies fix from 0.1.0.11.
- Fix an fd leak in start_daemon().
- On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
ports that have changed.
- Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, usability:
- When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
Windows-style errno back.
- Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when they
want to make it an NT service.
- NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages.
- When the controller asks for a config option with an abbreviated
name, give the full name in our response.
- Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
- Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
- When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
pthreads libraries.
o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
- Fix a seg fault with autodetecting which controller version is
being used.
o Features:
- New hidden service descriptor format: put a version in it, and
let people specify introduction/rendezvous points that aren't
in "the directory" (which is subjective anyway).
- Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
Changes in version 0.1.1.1-alpha - 2005-06-29
o Bugfixes:
- Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
- Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
- Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
- When we complain that your exit policy implicitly allows local or
private address spaces, name them explicitly so operators can
fix it.
- Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
temporarily unreachable.
- We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
culling them.
o Features:
- Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
than binary. Add supporting libraries in python and java so you
can use the controller from your applications without caring how
our protocol works.
- Spiffy new support for crypto hardware accelerators. Can somebody
test this?
Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
- On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
- It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
too -- so detect and avoid this.
- Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
giving an error).
- Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
- When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
- Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
- We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
- Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
rendezvous circuits.
- Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
- When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
messages so the operator knows what to expect.
- Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
advertising it because of hibernation.
- When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
- One of the dirservers (tor26) changed its IP address.
- When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
- When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
- Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
- We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
- Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
- Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
- Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
- Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
- Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
- Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
- Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
- We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
- Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
- Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
(CVE-2005-2643).
- Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
- Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
- Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
- Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
in the start menu.
- Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
not-broken.
Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
o New directory servers:
- tor26 has changed IP address.
o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
- Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
- When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
pthreads libraries.
- Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
claims its dirport is 0.
- Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
Edman for the fix.
Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
- Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
- Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
- Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
- The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
o Fixes on Win32:
- Make NT services work and start on startup on Win32 (based on
patch by Matt Edman). See the FAQ entry for details.
- Make 'platform' string in descriptor more accurate for Win32
servers, so it's not just "unknown platform".
- REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on Win32
means you can bind to the port _even when somebody else already
has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
- Clean up the log messages when starting on Win32 with no config
file.
- Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
Administrator. If seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
o Assert / crash bugs:
- Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
(CVE-2005-2050).
- If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
TLS errors better in other situations too.
- Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert when we have a
pending create cell and an OR connection attempt fails.
o Resource leaks:
- Use pthreads for worker processes rather than forking. This was
forced because when we forked, we ended up wasting a lot of
duplicate ram over time.
- Also switch to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow
reentry and threadsafeness.
- Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
netbsd and openbsd by default, because they have no reentrant
resolver functions (!), and on solaris since it has other
threading issues.
- Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
- Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
point at your Tor server.
- Fix possible memory leak in tor_lookup_hostname(). (Thanks to
Adam Langley.)
- Add ./configure --with-dmalloc option, to track memory leaks.
- And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
we're leaking.
o Protocol correctness:
- When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
- Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells
if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
to abandon partially built circuits.
- Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
descriptors we just dropped.
- Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
- Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending 'misc',
and to take errno into account where possible.
- Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
- Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
o Robustness improvements:
- Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
- Annotate circuits with whether they aim to contain high uptime
nodes and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
appropriate nodes.
- This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
- New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
that will want high uptime circuits.
- Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
- If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
- Reset published uptime when we wake up from hibernation.
- Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
- New circuit pooling algorithm: keep track of what destination ports
we've used recently (start out assuming we'll want to use 80), and
make sure to have enough circs around to satisfy these ports. Also
make sure to have 2 internal circs around if we've required internal
circs lately (and with high uptime if we've seen that lately too).
- Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
for google.com" problem.
- When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
- First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
clients yet.
o Reachability testing.
- Your Tor server will automatically try to see if its ORPort and
DirPort are reachable from the outside, and it won't upload its
descriptor until it decides at least ORPort is reachable (when
DirPort is not yet found reachable, publish it as zero).
- When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
- Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
- Authdirservers don't do ORPort reachability detection, since
they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a server not
already connected to them.
- Authdirservers now automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc
or later.
o Dirserver fixes:
- Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
nickname+key are allowed.
- If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
about all other descriptors for that address:port.
- Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
have quite wrong clocks).
- Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
their descriptors are being rejected.
o Efficiency improvements:
- Use libevent. Now we can use faster async cores (like epoll, kpoll,
and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better on Windows too.
- Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue API, and using
kqueue on 10.3.9 causes kernel panics. Don't use kqueue on OS X.
- Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
- Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
error message.
- Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
- Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
- Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
of CPU time plus memory.
- Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
directory every time you regenerate it.
- Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
- Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
- Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
lowercase when you first see them.
o Hidden services:
- Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
hidden services better.
- Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
when we try to launch one.
- Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds
after fetching the descriptor, rather than for n (where n=3)
attempts to build a circuit.
- Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
- Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
normal web requests.
o Controller:
- More Tor controller support. See
http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
closestream; closecircuit; etc.
- Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
to make it easier to write controllers.
- Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
Matt Edman). Disable debug-level logs while delivering a debug-level
log to the controller, to prevent loop. Update TorControl to handle
new log event types.
o New config options/defaults:
- Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
- New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
rejecting most low-numbered ports.
- Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
exit policy.
- Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
config option.
- Add HttpProxyAuthenticator and HttpsProxyAuthenticator support
based on patch from Adam Langley (basic auth only).
- Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
the fast servers that have been joining lately. (Clients are now
willing to load balance over up to 2 MB of advertised bandwidth
capacity too.)
- New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
- Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
- Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
- Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
required exit node for certain sites.
- Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
your exit keeps changing (based on patch from Mike Perry).
- Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
- Change compiled-in SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to
a config option "ShutdownWaitLength" (when using kill -INT on
servers).
- Fix an edge case in parsing config options: if they say "--"
on the commandline, it's not a config option (thanks weasel).
- New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
private-IP addresses.
- Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
smart" default value: low for servers and high for clients.
- Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
- If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
- Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
is valid without actually launching Tor.
o Logging improvements:
- When dirservers refuse a server descriptor, we now log its
contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
- Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist()
per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
yell so much.
- When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
- Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
- Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
- Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
- If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
wrong.
- When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
it was.
- Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
- Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
- Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
- Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
pretend that getting these occassionally is normal and fine.
o New contrib scripts:
- New experimental script tor/contrib/exitlist: a simple python
script to parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
addresses/ports.
- New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
- New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
via addresses like
"<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
- New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
- Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
on FreeBSD)
o Misc bugfixes:
- chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
- Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
- Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
the socks reject.
- Fix a bug in the RPM package: set home directory for _tor to
something more reasonable when first installing.
- Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
- When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
get the nodes.
- Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
artificially capped at 500kB.
- Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
addresses.
- If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
- tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
they could use instead.
- Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
- Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in certain
installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
the user asks you to.
o Misc features:
- Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "externalIP.serifos.exit"
rather than just rejecting it.
- If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
- When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
rather than just "success" or "failure".
- A more sane version numbering system. See
http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
- Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
the same series.
- Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
- Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
they're malformed.
- Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
for now.
- Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
- Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
come later.
- Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
whether the server is hibernating.
Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
- Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
(CVE-2005-2050).
Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
- If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
- We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
busy for more than 100 seconds.
Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
- Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
- Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
extending to unknown routers. Oops.
- Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
creating actual system users.
- Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
in 0.1.0.x).
Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
- Add new end stream reasons to maintainance branch. Fix bug where
reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
- Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
- Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
- Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
- Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
- Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
- Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
- Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
- Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
- Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
existing torrc files.
- Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
- Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
- Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
- Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
- Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
the win32 SYSTEM account.
- Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
- Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
file descriptors available.
- Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
- When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
- Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
freak out.
- Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
- Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
- MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
logs, etc.
- Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
- SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
- Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
- When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
- Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
- Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
800kB/s of capacity.
- Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
- Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
need as much processor time.
- Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
- Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
- Enable Mac startup script by default.
- Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
- When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
resetting.
- When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
- Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
- Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
- Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
to a file.
- If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
style address, then we'd crash.
- Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
a dirserver is broken.
- Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
may work better.
- Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
- Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
name out of the warning/assert messages.
- Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
- The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
take any away.
- Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
- Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
DataDirectory.
- Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
- Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
- Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
values at once couldn't work.
- When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
- Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
they can handle any number of routers.
- Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
- Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
- Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
- Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
- Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
- Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
- Make hibernation actually work.
- Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
- When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
don't use the stream status code.
Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Crashes and asserts):
- Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
write() call will fail and we handle it there.
- When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
- Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
- Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
- Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
- Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
bit platforms.
o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Win32):
- Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
win32 socket errors better.
- Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
- win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
- Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
- Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
happier.
- Make unit tests work on win32.
o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Path selection and streams):
- Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
right after sending the begin cell.
- Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
exit nodes too. Oops.
- When read() failed on a stream, we would close it without sending
back an end. So 'connection refused' would simply be ignored and
the user would get no response.
- Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
- Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
forever.
- Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Circuits):
- Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
bytes sitting in the inbuf.
- Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Other):
- Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
- Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
- If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
- When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
- Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
- If do_hup fails, actually notice.
- Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
so we don't see those messages days later.
- Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
bug).
- Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
they ran out of file descriptors.
- Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
recent enough.
- Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
- Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
- Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
the ones we find in directories.)
- Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
if you don't want it open.
- We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
- If a verified OR connects to us before he's uploaded his descriptor,
or we verify him and hup but he still has the original TLS
connection, then conn->nickname is still set like he's unverified.
o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
- tor_snprintf wrapper over snprintf with consistent (though not C99)
overflow behavior.
- Replace sprintf with tor_snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
hey.)
- Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
- Avoid strcat; use tor_snprintf or strlcat instead.
o Features (circuits and streams):
- New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
- Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
- When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
the user knows which one it's talking about.
- If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
- Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
from Geoff Goodell.
- If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
pick it anyway.
- Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
to fill the last cell completely.
- Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
- Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
o Features (bandwidth):
- Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMax" lets you
set how many bytes per month (in each direction) you want to
allow your server to consume. Rather than spreading those
bytes out evenly over the month, we instead hibernate for some
of the month and pop up at a deterministic time, work until
the bytes are consumed, then hibernate again. Config option
"MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you specify which day of the month
your billing cycle starts on.
- Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
hibernation properties by
AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
- Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
o Features (directories):
- New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
nickname to its identity key.
- Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
- Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
- Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
appropriate.
- Clients and servers now fetch running-routers; cache
running-routers; compress running-routers; serve compressed
running-routers.z
- Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
will be able to get a directory.
- Http proxy support
- Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
- You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
be routed through this host.
- Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
- Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
- Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
o Features (packages and install):
- Add NSI installer contributed by J Doe.
- Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
- Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
- Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
- Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
- Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
- Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
- Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
- Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
is broken.
o Features (ui controller):
- Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
- Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
with the control port.
- "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
use in authenticating to the control interface.
- Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
configuration to torrc.
- Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
- When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
o Features (config and command-line):
- Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
not on the command line.
- Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
options.
- Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
- Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
- DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
- StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
- DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
- RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
- New log format in config:
"Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
"Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
- DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
from their dirserver.
- "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
and then exit.
- Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
- New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
- New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
- New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
- Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
- Make the dirservers file obsolete.
- Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
- Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
- New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
- Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
- Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
than once per minute.
o Features (other):
- kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
get back to normal.)
- Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
- Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
- Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
log more informatively.
- Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
servers and clients to have any clock skew.
- Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
from each other, to hinder linkability.
- Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
them act more like real nodes.
- Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
- Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
1024) file descriptors.
- Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
o Bugfixes:
- Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
clients/servers with an open dirport.
- Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
- Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
- Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
intermittent connections.
- Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
- Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
reattaches.
- Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
in reporting stats locally.
- Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
- Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
o Bugfixes:
- Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
- We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
- Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
- Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
list to decide who's running.
- Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
- Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
- Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
- Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
for pointing out this bug.)
- Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
directory.
- Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
don't put it into the client dns cache.
- If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP
address should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy
reject *:* until we get our next directory.
o Protocol changes:
- 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
hadn't heard of before.
o Features:
- Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
- Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
- Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
- We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
- AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
- When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
- ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
- Directory caching.
- "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
- Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
directory they've pulled down.
- They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
- Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
- Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
authdirservers, to stay better synced.
- Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
by hash-of-key).
- Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
This isn't used yet.
- You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
clients don't use this yet.)
- Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
- Clients avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
- Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't just replace
options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
- 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
- Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
should tolerate down dirservers better now.
- ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
- If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
- The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
- When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
- File and name management:
- Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
- If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
as datadir.
- If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
- Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
- If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
- Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
- Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
to use.
- Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
rather than an is-in-the-list check.
- New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
locally.
- A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
- A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
- Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
- Write tor version at the top of each log file
- New docs in the tarball:
- tor-doc.html.
- Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
- Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
- Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
know you might want to get it verified.
- Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
kazaa, gnutella ports.
- Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
- Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
- Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
- Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
- Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
"GET /".
- If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
an exitnode.
- Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
or exit nodes.
- OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
IP address for outgoing connect()s.
- End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
ask them to resolve the host "".
Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
- Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
them.
- When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
exit nodes.
- Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
hidden service per 15-minute period.
- Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
o Fixes for security bugs:
- Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
a trusted dirserver.
o Other bugfixes:
- Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
- When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
- Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
- Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
- Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
have failed.
- Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
- Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
- Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
- Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
easily.
- Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
settings too.
o Features:
- Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
- Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
- Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
directory (not that we were anywhere close).
- Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
- Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
- Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
- Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
- Updated the man page to reflect these features.
Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
not the previous cells like we'd thought.
Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
server.
Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
o Features:
- Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
- We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
- CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
if you decrypted them correctly.
- Retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address.
- When we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
in-memory directories too.
- Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
- Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
- Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
- Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
just close the circ.
- Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
- Better debugging for tls errors
- Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
- Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
o Bugfixes:
- Fix an assert trigger for exit nodes that's been plaguing us since
the days of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
- Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
it tells you about the first error.
- Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
- Don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit.
- Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
- Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
o Win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
o Win32's close can't close a socket.
o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
o Portability:
- check for <sys/limits.h> so we build on FreeBSD again, and
<machine/limits.h> for NetBSD.
Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
torrc. (Woo!)
o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
expect it to have a nickname.
o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
the dns farm to do it.
o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
directory.
o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
but that aren't warnings
Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
we would crash.
Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
- include missing header fcntl.h
- have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
- deal with hardware word alignment
- make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
- switch from using signal() to sigaction()
o Preliminary work on reputation system:
- Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
by kill -USR1 currently.
- Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
- Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
- Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
- define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
o Bugfixes:
- Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
- And fix a few endian issues.
Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
o New features:
- If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
try that circuit again: try a new one.
- Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
- When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
accept it even without mail from the server operator).
- Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
- Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
about as a server.
- Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
- Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
(used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
o Bugfixes:
- Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
simply not true.
- When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
side isn't reading right then.
- Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
RecommendedVersions
- We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
- Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
- Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
o New features:
- Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
e.g. poblano.
o Bugfixes:
- If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
crashed.
Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
o Bugfixes:
- Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
- Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
connection is finished.
- Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
- Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
- Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
- Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
- Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
- Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
rather than warn and continue.
- Make --version work
- Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
o New features:
- Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
knows it's working.
- If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
clearly thwarted.)
- New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
- When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
so you can collect coredumps there.
o Bugfixes:
- Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
- Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
dns cache actually gets populated.
- Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
- When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
end cell down it first.
- Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
o New features:
- Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
- More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
errors happen.
- If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
- When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
- Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
it.
- Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
o Bugfixes:
- If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
- Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
- When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
dirservers.
- Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
o New features:
- There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
- There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
tor. It even has a man page.
- The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
- Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
- Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
his/her torrc.
- Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
o Bugfixes:
- Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
o New features:
- We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
it, apt-getters. :)
- I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
- Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
- Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
to new ones.
- Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
have them reattach to new circuits instead.
o Bugfixes:
- Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
after a while.
- Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
- Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
o Bugfixes:
- Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
- New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
- If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
logfile so you know it's working.
- The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
- Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
o Bugfixes:
- Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
- Fix a potential bug where connections in state
AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
o Bugfixes:
- Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
- Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
o Features:
- Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
- Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
with MorphMix).
- Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
- Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
relay cells.
- Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
this hop.
- Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
been made so far.
Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
o Bugfixes:
- Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
- Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
o Features:
- Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
the circuit and then we open streams at him.
- Add port ranges to exit policies
- Add a conservative default exit policy
- Warn if you're running tor as root
- on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
- options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
- options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
exit nodes.
- options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
o Robustness and bugfixes:
- Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
really screw things up.
- An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
working.
- A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
established.
- Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
- Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
- Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
- Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
- Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
- Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
o Documentation:
- Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
o Configuration:
- Change default loglevel to warn.
- Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
- OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
ORPort>0.
- Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
o Robustness and bugfixes:
- Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
- to get ownership/permissions right
- so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
- fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
pull down a directory again
- fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
causing server crashes
- warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
- use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
- exit if bind() fails
- exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
- include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
- bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
- fix minor bias in PRNG
- make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
o Documentation:
- Wrote the design document (woo)
o Circuit building and exit policies:
- Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
are down.
- Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
- Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
exists, rather than failing
- Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
which AP connections are standing by
- Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
- Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
- If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
circuit.
- Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
- Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
o Configuration:
- APPort is now called SocksPort
- SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
where to bind
- RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
hardcoded (for dirservers)
- Reloads config on HUP
- Usage info on -h or --help
- If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
o General stability:
- SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
- Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
- Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
- Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
to take down the network when I approve a new router
- Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
o Buffers:
- Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
- Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
o Autoconf improvements:
- don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
- Make install now works
- create var/lib/tor on make install
- autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
- autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
- If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
- If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
- If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup
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