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[or-cvs] Make service IDs 80 bits, not 128
Update of /home/or/cvsroot/doc
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Modified Files:
rend-spec.txt
Log Message:
Make service IDs 80 bits, not 128
Index: rend-spec.txt
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RCS file: /home/or/cvsroot/doc/rend-spec.txt,v
retrieving revision 1.1
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -d -r1.1 -r1.2
--- rend-spec.txt 28 Mar 2004 08:46:38 -0000 1.1
+++ rend-spec.txt 30 Mar 2004 19:20:11 -0000 1.2
@@ -171,16 +171,15 @@
~16-octet hash of Bob's service's public key, computed as follows:
1. Let H = H(PK).
- 2. Let H' = the first 130 bits of H, considering each octet from
+ 2. Let H' = the first 80 bits of H, considering each octet from
most significant bit to least significant big.
2. Generate a 26-character encoding of H', taking H' 5 bits at
a time, and mapping each 5-bit value to a character as follows:
0..25 map to the characters 'a'...'z', respectively.
26..31 map to the characters '0'...'5', respectively.
- (We only use 130 bits instead of the 160 bits from SHA1 because we don't
- need to worry about man-in-the-middle attacks. We use 130 instead of 128
- in order to have an even multiple of 5.)
+ (We only use 80 bits instead of the 160 bits from SHA1 because we don't
+ need to worry about man-in-the-middle attacks.)
[Yes, numbers are allowed at the beginning. See RFC1123. -NM]