commit df99ce23952d76c0ad8265de250e30946c57eff9 Author: Nick Mathewson nickm@torproject.org Date: Fri Aug 15 17:51:16 2014 -0400

No longer advertise or negotiate any consensus method before 13.

Implements proposal 215; closes ticket 10163.

Why? From proposal 215:

Consensus method 1 is no longer viable for the Tor network. It doesn't result in a microdescriptor consensus, and omits other fields that clients need in order to work well. Consensus methods under 12 have security issues, since they let a single authority set a consensus parameter. ... For example, while Tor 0.2.4.x is under development, authorities should really not be running anything before Tor 0.2.3.x. Tor 0.2.3.x has supported consensus method 13 since 0.2.3.21-rc, so it's okay for 0.2.4.x to require 13 as the minimum method. We even might go back to method 12, since the worst outcome of not using 13 would be some warnings in client logs. Consensus method 12 was a security improvement, so we don't want to roll back before that. --- src/or/dirvote.c | 8 +++++--- src/or/dirvote.h | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/or/dirvote.c b/src/or/dirvote.c index 30f1321..cec13c4 100644 --- a/src/or/dirvote.c +++ b/src/or/dirvote.c @@ -110,7 +110,8 @@ format_networkstatus_vote(crypto_pk_t *private_signing_key, char *params; authority_cert_t *cert = v3_ns->cert; char *methods = - make_consensus_method_list(1, MAX_SUPPORTED_CONSENSUS_METHOD, " "); + make_consensus_method_list(MIN_SUPPORTED_CONSENSUS_METHOD, + MAX_SUPPORTED_CONSENSUS_METHOD, " "); format_iso_time(published, v3_ns->published); format_iso_time(va, v3_ns->valid_after); format_iso_time(fu, v3_ns->fresh_until); @@ -537,7 +538,8 @@ compute_consensus_method(smartlist_t *votes) static int consensus_method_is_supported(int method) { - return (method >= 1) && (method <= MAX_SUPPORTED_CONSENSUS_METHOD); + return (method >= MIN_SUPPORTED_CONSENSUS_METHOD) && + (method <= MAX_SUPPORTED_CONSENSUS_METHOD); }

/** Return a newly allocated string holding the numbers between low and high @@ -1346,7 +1348,7 @@ networkstatus_compute_consensus(smartlist_t *votes, log_warn(LD_DIR, "The other authorities will use consensus method %d, " "which I don't support. Maybe I should upgrade!", consensus_method); - consensus_method = 1; + consensus_method = MAX_SUPPORTED_CONSENSUS_METHOD; }

/* Compute medians of time-related things, and figure out how many diff --git a/src/or/dirvote.h b/src/or/dirvote.h index 4c57e43..c9ea987 100644 --- a/src/or/dirvote.h +++ b/src/or/dirvote.h @@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ /** Smallest allowable voting interval. */ #define MIN_VOTE_INTERVAL 300

+/** The lowest consensus method that we currently support. */ +#define MIN_SUPPORTED_CONSENSUS_METHOD 13 + /** The highest consensus method that we currently support. */ #define MAX_SUPPORTED_CONSENSUS_METHOD 18