From c65121b81fe98e0dab7329730b6e7c98f66f19fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Palfrader Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:39:03 +0000 Subject: Document conditional consensus urls in dirspec svn:r14448 --- doc/spec/dir-spec.txt | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/spec/dir-spec.txt b/doc/spec/dir-spec.txt index cd47eb029..dc9716334 100644 --- a/doc/spec/dir-spec.txt +++ b/doc/spec/dir-spec.txt @@ -1390,6 +1390,23 @@ $Id$ The most recent v3 consensus should be available at: http:///tor/status-vote/current/consensus.z + Starting with Tor version 0.2.1.1-alpha is also available at: + http:///tor/status-vote/current/consensus/++.z + + Where F1, F2, etc. are authority identity fingerprints the client trusts. + Servers will only return a consensus if more than half of the requested + authorities have signed the document, otherwise a 404 error will be sent + back. The fingerprints can be shortened to a length of any multiple of + two, using only the leftmost part of the encoded fingerprint. Tor uses + 3 bytes (6 hex characters) of the fingerprint. + + Clients SHOULD sort the fingerprints in ascending order. Server MUST + accept any order. + + Clients SHOULD use this format when requesting consensus documents from + directory authority servers and from caches running a version of Tor + that is known to support this URL format. + A concatenated set of all the current key certificates should be available at: http:///tor/keys/all.z -- cgit v1.2.3