[tor-dev] Proposal 214: Allow 4-byte circuit IDs in a new link protocol

[Karsten Loesing]

On 11/10/12 11:50 AM, Tim Wilde wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 9:36 PM, Nick Mathewson <nickm at freehaven.net> wrote:
> 
>> 2.1. Better allocation of circuitID space
>>
>>    In the current Tor design, circuit ID allocation is determined by
>>    whose RSA public key has the lower modulus.  How ridiculous!
>>    Instead, I propose that when the version 4 link protocol is in use,
>>    the connection initiator use the low half of the circuit ID space,
>>    and the responder use the low half of the circuit ID space.
>>
> 
> Shouldn't this say "the responder use the high half of the circuit ID
> space"?

Yes.  Nick already fixed this in the torspec.git repository:

-   and the responder use the low half of the circuit ID space.
+   and the responder use the high half of the circuit ID space.

https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/blob/HEAD:/proposals/214-longer-circids.txt

Best,
Karsten