commit c00e9370c3ceb09006da0bd05a7738e3f2c270df Author: George Kadianakis desnacked@riseup.net Date: Mon Jun 13 15:15:00 2016 +0300

prop224: Minor cleanup of [WHERE-HSDESC] section. --- proposals/224-rend-spec-ng.txt | 25 +++++++------------------ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/proposals/224-rend-spec-ng.txt b/proposals/224-rend-spec-ng.txt index e8225e5..f9e61e6 100644 --- a/proposals/224-rend-spec-ng.txt +++ b/proposals/224-rend-spec-ng.txt @@ -737,18 +737,13 @@ Table of contents: The following consensus parameters control where a hidden service descriptor is stored;

- hsdir_n_replicas = an integer in range [1,16] - with default value 2. - - hsdir_spread_fetch = an integer in range [1,128] - with default value 3. - - hsdir_spread_store = an integer in range [1,128] - with default value 3. + hsdir_n_replicas = an integer in range [1,16] with default value 2. + hsdir_spread_fetch = an integer in range [1,128] with default value 3. + hsdir_spread_store = an integer in range [1,128] with default value 3.

To determine where a given hidden service descriptor will be stored in a given period, after the blinded public key for that period is - derived, the uploading or downloading party calculate + derived, the uploading or downloading party calculates:

for replicanum in 1...hsdir_n_replicas: hs_index(replicanum) = H("store-at-idx" | @@ -756,8 +751,9 @@ Table of contents: INT_8(replicanum) | INT_8(period_num) )

- where blinded_public_key is specified in section KEYBLIND, and period_num is - defined in section [TIME-PERIODS]. + where blinded_public_key is specified in section [KEYBLIND], and period_num + is calculated using the current consensus "valid-after" as specified in + section [TIME-PERIODS].

Then, for each node listed in the current consensus with the HSDirV3 flag, we compute a directory index for that node as: @@ -777,13 +773,6 @@ Table of contents: service, any nodes already chosen are disregarded (i.e. skipped over) when choosing a replica's hsdir_spread_store nodes.

- [ XX/teor - because the positions don't match the key, this might leak - the fact that nodes from other replicas are nearby to a HSDir. - But this is preferable to having fewer HSDirs for a service. - I think the probability of a collision is approximately: - 1 / (n_hsdirs / (hsdir_n_replicas * hsdir_spread_store)) = 6 / n_hsdirs, - where n_hsdirs is the total number of HSDirs in the hash ring. ] - When choosing an HSDir to download from, clients choose randomly from among the first hsdir_spread_fetch nodes after the indices. (Note that, in order to make the system better tolerate disappearing