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Re: one more please...:)



On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 02:38:27PM -0500, chris@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> What precisely is an Onion Router's 'identity'?
> This is important because the commonName field of Tor certs contain
> 'identities'.

There's nothing about the commonName having an "identity" as far as I
can tell; it's a nickname.  Nicknames are described in dir-spec.txt;
their binding is described in in 6.1.

> This was not clear to me from section 2 in the spec.
> 
> RSA public key?
> SHA1 hash of ASN1. encoded RSA public key?
> 
> cs
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