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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