Commit c8c6af65 authored by Roger Dingledine's avatar Roger Dingledine
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write at the top of rend-spec that reading the design paper

first will be helpful.


svn:r3363
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[XXX We need to make nicknames in intro* cells padded to 20
 bytes, and maybe have a fixed length for nicknames in the
 descriptor too -RD]

                    Tor Rendezvous Specification

0. Overview and preliminaries

   Read http://tor.eff.org/doc/design-paper/tor-design.html#sec:rendezvous
   before you read this specification. It will make more sense.

   Rendezvous points provide location-hidden services (server
   anonymity) for the onion routing network. With rendezvous points,
   Bob can offer a TCP service (say, a webserver) via the onion
@@ -126,8 +125,7 @@ $Id$
   The members of Ipt may be either (a) nicknames, or (b) identity key
   digests, encoded in hex, and prefixed with a '$'.  Clients must
   accept both forms. Services must only generate the second form.
   Once 0.0.8.1 and 0.0.9pre3-4 are obsoleted, we can drop the first
   form.
   Once 0.0.9.x is obsoleted, we can drop the first form.

   [It's ok for Bob to advertise 0 introduction points. He might want
    to do that if he previously advertised some introduction points,