[tor-dev] Proposal: Expose raw bwauth votes

[teor]

> On 16 Jan 2018, at 09:17, Tom Ritter <tom at ritter.vg> wrote:
> 
>> Also, Tor has new compression options for zstd and lzma.
>> 
>> Given that this is an externally-controlled file, we could stream it
>> from disk and compress it on the fly with something cheap like gzip
>> or zstd.
> 
> I haven't seen any indicated in dir-spec how to handle those? Or how I
> should change the proposal to accommodate them? Should I make the url
> .gz and say that the DirAuth should compress it and stream it from
> disk?

There is this section about gzip-compression, the extension is ".z":
https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/dir-spec.txt#n3777

I have opened this ticket to document how other compression formats
work in tor-spec:

https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/24909

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Tim / teor

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