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Re: [tor-dev] Is it time to drop support for the v1/v2 protos?



Nick Mathewson schreef op 02/01/15 om 15:27:
On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 3:33 PM, Tom van der
Woerdt <info@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Sounds good!

I spent some time writing a patch that removes v1 of the link protocol from
both the server and client, and so far it seems to work nicely: the code
compiles nicely, all test cases pass, and the resulting binary has relayed a
few gigabytes of data without any problems.

As I didn't really have a place to put the branch, I uploaded it to Github:
https://github.com/TvdW/tor/commits/master

It's a rather large patch, though not as large as the patch that will remove
v2 of the protocol. However, before I write that one, can someone please
check whether my patch is sane and I'm not violating any standards or
policies?

Hi, Tom!

Sorry about the delay; this has been a busy time, between CCC drama
and the new year.

A few procedural suggestions:

   * Maybe call branches like this something other than "master"?  It's
a good idea to have a separate topic branch for each patch series you
write, so that the upstream project can merge them independently.

   * It's a good idea to link to branches like this from the
appropriate tickets on the bugtracker, so that we can't lose track of
them.

Thanks, I'll create an account.


   * Every Tuesday on the #tor-dev IRC channel on OFTC, at 1800 UTC,
it's patch workshop time, where a bunch of people get together to
review one another's patches.  Maybe you'd like to stop by? :)

Sounds fun!


And, some fast notes on the patch itself:

   * Actually, it's not that long. "git log -p -b" only says it's 607
lines, which is comparatively easy to review.

   * Some of the stuff can't actually get removed yet by the terms of
what we've said we're doing.  The V2_CIPHER_LIST, for example, is used
to detect Tor versions up through 0.2.3.17-beta.  We've only mentioned
dropping support for 0.2.2 and earlier, right?. Similarly with the
tor_tls_session_secret_cb logic.

   Now, maybe we _should_ drop support for versions before
0.2.3.17-beta as well.  If so, we can rip out even more code.  (And
that might be a good idea.) What do people on the list think?

I'd definitely like ripping out more legacy support code :-) According to the consensus, 0.2.3.24-rc is the lowest recommended version right now, and I (mis)interpreted that as the lowest version that must still be supported after I rip out code.

On a related note, I've uploaded a branch of the torspec [1] to reword (most of) the handshake part to match what I hope the code will do as soon as I'm done cleaning. Spec changes may need to go through proposals though, should I add it as one?

Also, in case anyone is wondering why a complete stranger is suddenly so interested in ripping parts out of Tor: I attempted to implement a Tor client and was constantly faced with legacy stuff in the spec. Might as well get rid of it if you don't need it - also makes my client implementation easier.

Tom

[1] https://github.com/TvdW/torspec/commits/remove-legacy-protocol-support

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