[tor-commits] [tor/master] Improve bug11743 message a bit.

nickm at torproject.org nickm at torproject.org
Thu May 8 02:23:27 UTC 2014


commit c948bdaa2859bb4d92b8af526bf1363a854919e8
Author: Nick Mathewson <nickm at torproject.org>
Date:   Wed May 7 22:23:19 2014 -0400

    Improve bug11743 message a bit.
---
 changes/bug11743 |    5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/changes/bug11743 b/changes/bug11743
index 89e4bbc..8435179 100644
--- a/changes/bug11743
+++ b/changes/bug11743
@@ -3,11 +3,12 @@
     - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's
       identity key as a part of its microdescriptor.
 
-      This is a workaround for bug #11743, where Tor clients do not
+      This is a workaround for bug #11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"),
+      where Tor clients do not
       support receiving multiple microdescriptors with the same SHA256
       digest in the same consensus. When clients receive a consensus
       like this, they only use one of the relays. Without this fix, a
-      hostile relay could selectively disable client use of target
+      hostile relay could selectively disable some client use of target
       relays by constucting a router descriptor with a different
       identity and the same microdescriptor parameters and getting the
       authorities to list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix



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