Re: 141: exit policy summary

[Nick Mathewson <nickm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 01:00:53AM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Aug 2008, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> 
> >   An exit policy summary will be included in votes and consensus as a
> >   new line attached to each exit node.  A lack of policy should indicate
> >   a non-exit policy.  The line will have the format
> >    "p" <space> "accept"|"reject" <portlist>
> >   where portlist is a comma seperated list of single port numbers or
> >   portranges (e.g.  "22,80-88,1024-6000,6667").  Whether the summary
> >   shows the list of accepted ports or the list of rejected ports depends
> >   on which list is shorter (has less elements).  In case of ties we
>                                  s/less elements/a shorter string representation/
> >   choose the list of accepted ports.

I wonder if we shouldn't cap the length in order to keep people from
playing silly games to DOS the directory system with the likes of

   accept: 1,3,5,7,9,11,13,15,...

 [...]
> I'd still go for "shorter string representation", even if only because
> it usually is nicer to read to the human.

I agree; the added logic isn't terribly difficult to do.

yrs,
-- 
Nick