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| author | Nick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org> | 2014-05-07 22:23:19 -0400 |
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| committer | Nick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org> | 2014-05-07 22:23:19 -0400 |
| commit | c948bdaa2859bb4d92b8af526bf1363a854919e8 (patch) | |
| tree | 3873a5e37495f43ac1d535a699a9b0d6a9000a6b /changes | |
| parent | 0de2625675c9b504a40312ef190bf8b184cc9ce0 (diff) | |
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Improve bug11743 message a bit.
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/changes/bug11743 b/changes/bug11743 index 89e4bbc2b..843517908 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 |