[tor-dev] Proposal 221: Stop using CREATE_FAST

Nick Mathewson nickm at alum.mit.edu
Thu Oct 31 20:58:47 UTC 2013


On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Roger Dingledine <arma at mit.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 09:14:19PM -0400, Nick Mathewson wrote:
>>    I propose that in 0.2.5.x, Tor clients stop sending CREATE_FAST
>>    cells, and use CREATE or CREATE2 cells instead as appropriate.
>
> I'm a fan. Especially since some relays (like mine) have upgraded to
> Tor 0.2.5.x but their OpenSSL isn't new enough to have the new ciphers
> for stronger TLS.

I've tried to get this right in a couple of branches, as described in
ticket #9386.

Thanks!
-- 
Nick


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