[tor-dev] [RFC] Directory structure of prop224 onion services

[Ivan Markin]

On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 09:02:35AM +1100, teor wrote:
> How does an application tell the difference between a v2 and v3
> directory?
> 
> What's the supported method, that we will continue to support in
> future, regardless of key or algorithm changes?

I guess by looking at the address and checking its validity and/or
looking at the vesion field in v3 (see recent discussion on onion
address encoding). So if there will be crypto changes there will be
version field changes as well.

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Ivan Makrin