commit 3825d0733a05283eae0ab84410593c4e72757857 Author: Nick Mathewson nickm@torproject.org 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