[tor-bugs] #12799 [Tor]: fingerprints - descriptor SPace removal, case normalization
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#12799: fingerprints - descriptor SPace removal, case normalization
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Reporter: grarpamp | Owner:
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: Tor: 0.2.???
Component: Tor | Version: Tor: 0.2.4.22
Resolution: | Keywords:
Actual Points: | Parent ID:
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Changes (by nickm):
* milestone: Tor: 0.2.5.x-final => Tor: 0.2.???
Comment:
I wouldn't mind removing those spaces, but according to the specification,
they need to be there. If we take them out now, software that expects to
find them there will break. To remove them, the first step would be to
audit basically everything that has ever looked at a Tor descriptor or at
a fingerprint file, and make sure that it will work okay if the
fingerprint has no spaces.
>And they currently waste about 60kB per descriptor set X all the nodes X
frequency.
Fortunately, this is uncompressed disk storage space, not transmission
size: after compression, the spaces don't affect the size of the
descriptor on the wire.
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/12799#comment:1>
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