commit 1bbff5085c226487cd2acc7d125d6cf7203c7493 Author: Georg Koppen gk@torproject.org Date: Thu Apr 30 18:50:06 2015 +0000
Fixing typos and minor things --- design-doc/design.xml | 25 ++++++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
diff --git a/design-doc/design.xml b/design-doc/design.xml index 7711d19..c0cb1b1 100644 --- a/design-doc/design.xml +++ b/design-doc/design.xml @@ -1184,8 +1184,7 @@ each cache key</ulink> to include an additional ID that includes the URL bar domain. This functionality can be observed by navigating to <ulink url="about:cache">about:cache</ulink> and viewing the key used for each cache entry. Each third party element should have an additional "id=string" -property prepended, which will list the FQDN that was used to source the third -party element. +property prepended, which will list the FQDN that was used to source it.
</para> <para> @@ -1200,12 +1199,12 @@ this cache per url bar domain</ulink>. <listitem>HTTP Auth <para>
-HTTP Authorization headers can be used by Javascript to encode <ulink +HTTP Authorization headers can be used to encode <ulink url="http://jeremiahgrossman.blogspot.com/2007/04/tracking-users-without-cookies.html">silent third party tracking identifiers</ulink>. To prevent this, we remove HTTP authentication tokens for third party elements through a <ulink url="https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-browser.git/commit/?h=tor-browser-31.6.0esr-4.5-1&id=b8ce4a0760759431f146c71184c89fbd5e1a27e4">patch -to nsHTTPChannel</ulink>. +to nsHTTPChannel</ulink>.
</para> </listitem> @@ -1256,14 +1255,14 @@ url="https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-browser.git/commit/?h=tor-browser-31.6.0e to Firefox</ulink>. To compensate for the increased round trip latency from disabling these performance optimizations, we also enable <ulink url="https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-bmoeller-tls-falsestart-00">TLS -False Start</ulink> via the Firefox Pref +False Start</ulink> via the Firefox Pref <command>security.ssl.enable_false_start</command>. </para> </listitem> - <listitem>IP address, Tor Circuit, and HTTP Keep-Alive linkability + <listitem>IP address, Tor circuit, and HTTP Keep-Alive linkability <para>
-IP addresses, Tor Circuits, and HTTP connections from a third party in one URL +IP addresses, Tor circuits, and HTTP connections from a third party in one URL bar origin MUST NOT be reused for that same third party in another URL bar origin. </para> @@ -1271,14 +1270,14 @@ origin.
This isolation functionality is provided by the combination of a <ulink url="https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-browser.git/commit/?h=tor-browser-31.6.0esr-4.5-1&id=b3ea705cc35b79a9ba27323cb3e32d5d004ea113">Firefox -patch to allow SOCKS username and passwords</ulink>, as well as a Torbutton +patch to allow SOCKS usernames and passwords</ulink>, as well as a Torbutton component that <ulink linkend="https://gitweb.torproject.org/torbutton.git/tree/src/components/domain-isolator.js">sets the SOCKS username and password for each request</ulink>. The Tor client has logic to prevent connections with different SOCKS usernames and passwords from -using the same Tor Circuit, which provides us with IP address unlinkability. -Firefox has existing logic to ensure that connections with SOCKS proxy do not -re-use existing HTTP Keep Alive connections unless the proxy settings match. +using the same Tor circuit, which provides us with IP address unlinkability. +Firefox has existing logic to ensure that connections with SOCKS proxies do not +re-use existing HTTP Keep-Alive connections unless the proxy settings match. We extended this logic to cover SOCKS username and password authentication, providing us with HTTP Keep-Alive unlinkability.
@@ -1325,7 +1324,7 @@ URIs created with URL.createObjectURL MUST be limited in scope to the first party URL bar domain that created them. We provide this isolation in Tor Browser via a <ulink url="https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-browser.git/commit/?h=tor-browser-31.6.0esr-4.5-1&id=0d67ab406bdd3cf095802cb25c081641aa1f0bcc">direct -patch to Firefox</ulink>. +patch to Firefox</ulink> and disable URL.createObjectURL in a worker context as a stopgap.
</para> </listitem> @@ -1487,7 +1486,7 @@ do so only on a per-site basis via site permissions, to avoid linkability. <listitem><command>Device and Hardware Characteristics</command> <para>
-Device and hardware characteristics can be determined three ways: they can be +Device and hardware characteristics can be determined in three ways: they can be reported explicitly by the browser, they can be inferred through API behavior, or they can be extracted through statistical measurements of system performance. We are most concerned with the cases where this information is