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[tor-commits] [torspec/master] prop140: kill off digest prefixes.
commit 3825d0733a05283eae0ab84410593c4e72757857
Author: Nick Mathewson <nickm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu May 4 11:33:52 2017 -0400
prop140: kill off digest prefixes.
---
proposals/140-consensus-diffs.txt | 10 ++++------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/proposals/140-consensus-diffs.txt b/proposals/140-consensus-diffs.txt
index 55db58f..5a8be3f 100644
--- a/proposals/140-consensus-diffs.txt
+++ b/proposals/140-consensus-diffs.txt
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ Status: Accepted
consensus signatures would make clients identify which encodings they
had been given as they asked for diffs.
+ 4-May-2017: Remove support for truncated digest prefixes.
+
1. Overview.
Tor clients and servers need a list of which relays are on the
@@ -112,12 +114,8 @@ Status: Accepted
authorities the client trusts.
Servers will only return a consensus if more than half of the requested
- authorities have signed the document, otherwise a 404 error will be sent
- back. The fingerprints can be shortened to a length of any multiple of
- two, using only the leftmost part of the encoded fingerprint. Tor uses
- 3 bytes (6 hex characters) of the fingerprint. (This is just like the
- conditional consensus downloads that Tor supports starting with
- 0.1.2.1-alpha.)
+ authorities have signed the document. Otherwise, a 404 error will be sent
+ back.
The advantage of using the same URL that is currently used for
consensuses is that the client doesn't need to know whether a server
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