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| author | Nick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org> | 2009-09-15 13:29:48 -0400 |
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| committer | Nick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org> | 2009-10-15 15:17:12 -0400 |
| commit | 80a7a34755e7b7163778c5475f9a6459febb1bf4 (patch) | |
| tree | fd0fb0a644d0673dc5fcee598252b9508402bc05 /doc/spec | |
| parent | c5f7f04aff850e8e3fad28e93e6300447625fdbb (diff) | |
| download | tor-80a7a34755e7b7163778c5475f9a6459febb1bf4.tar tor-80a7a34755e7b7163778c5475f9a6459febb1bf4.tar.gz | |
Revise 162's idea of how detached signatures work with flavors
The original proposal was vague and would have made older Tors reject
detached-signature documents as soon as they saw one with flavors.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/spec')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/spec/proposals/162-consensus-flavors.txt | 15 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/spec/proposals/162-consensus-flavors.txt b/doc/spec/proposals/162-consensus-flavors.txt index 8fdf9d07b..56a0b0e1a 100644 --- a/doc/spec/proposals/162-consensus-flavors.txt +++ b/doc/spec/proposals/162-consensus-flavors.txt @@ -91,9 +91,18 @@ Spec modifications: 3. Document format: detached signatures. - In addition to the current detached signature format, we allow - the first line to take the form, - "consensus-digest" SP flavor SP 1*(Algname "=" Digest) NL + We amend the detached signature format to include more than one + consensus-digest line, and more than one set of signatures. + + After the consensus-digest line, we allow more lines of the form: + "additional-digest" SP flavor SP algname SP digest NL + + Before the directory-signature lines, we allow more entries of the form: + "additional-signature" SP flavor SP algname SP identity SP + signing-key-digest NL signature. + + [We do not use "consensus-digest" or "directory-signature" for flavored + consensuses, since this could confuse older Tors.] The consensus-signatures URL should contain the signatures for _all_ flavors of consensus. |