Commit cb8ebfcf authored by Roger Dingledine's avatar Roger Dingledine
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folding in nick's suggestion


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Changes for doc/rendezvous.txt: 8 added lines, 12 removed lines.
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   information into the hostname will be too long for a typical hostname,
   we instead use a layer of indirection. We encode a hash of Bob's PK
   (10 bytes is sufficient since we're not worrying about collisions),
   and also the authentication token (empty for now). Thus at a bit more
   than 6 bits encoded per character (assuming only alphanumeric and
   hyphen), we transform the hostname "moria.mit.edu" into the hostname
   "moria.mit.edu.onion5gfmjsda-ckd5" (adding 13 characters plus the
   separator).

   [I thought we were going to do something more like "56fmjsda-ckd5.onion",
   leaving off moria.mit.edu.  This would have the advantage of not confusing
   users if the domain name part ('moria.mit.edu') doesn't match the key.

   Also, having a separate onion 'virtual TLD' is kinda more in the spirit
   of DNS as it stands. -NM]
   and also the authentication token (empty for now). Location-hidden
   services use the special top level domain called '.onion': thus
   hostnames take the form x.y.onion where x is the hash of PK, and y
   is the authentication cookie. If no cookie is required, the hostname
   can simply be of the form x.onion. Assuming only case insensitive
   alphanumeric and hyphen, we get a bit more than 6 bits encoded
   per character, meaning the x part of the hostname will be about
   13 characters.

   Alice's onion proxy examines hostnames and recognizes when they're
   destined for a hidden server. If so, it decodes the PK, looks it up in