Loading rend-spec.txt +47 −63 Changes for rend-spec.txt: 47 added lines, 63 removed lines. Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -145,33 +145,10 @@ $Id$ 1.2. Bob's OP generates service descriptors. The first time the OP provides an advertised service, it generates a public/private keypair (stored locally). Periodically, the OP generates and publishes a descriptor of type "V0". a public/private keypair (stored locally). The "V0" descriptor contains: KL Key length [2 octets] PK Bob's public key [KL octets] TS A timestamp [4 octets] NI Number of introduction points [2 octets] Ipt A list of NUL-terminated ORs [variable] SIG Signature of above fields [variable] KL is the length of PK, in octets. TS is the number of seconds elapsed since Jan 1, 1970. 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 0.0.9.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, and now he doesn't have any. -RD] Beginning with 0.2.0.10-alpha, Bob's OP encodes "V2" descriptors in addition to "V0" descriptors. The format of a "V2" descriptor is as follows: Beginning with 0.2.0.10-alpha, Bob's OP encodes "V2" descriptors. The format of a "V2" descriptor is as follows: "rendezvous-service-descriptor" descriptor-id NL Loading Loading @@ -340,6 +317,10 @@ $Id$ (This ends the fields in the encrypted portion of the descriptor.) [It's ok for Bob to advertise 0 introduction points. He might want to do that if he previously advertised some introduction points, and now he doesn't have any. -RD] "signature" NL signature-string [At end, exactly once] Loading @@ -349,6 +330,21 @@ $Id$ 1.2.1. Other descriptor formats we don't use. Support for the V0 descriptor format was dropped in 0.2.2.0-alpha-dev: KL Key length [2 octets] PK Bob's public key [KL octets] TS A timestamp [4 octets] NI Number of introduction points [2 octets] Ipt A list of NUL-terminated ORs [variable] SIG Signature of above fields [variable] KL is the length of PK, in octets. TS is the number of seconds elapsed since Jan 1, 1970. The members of Ipt may be either (a) nicknames, or (b) identity key digests, encoded in hex, and prefixed with a '$'. The V1 descriptor format was understood and accepted from 0.1.1.5-alpha-cvs to 0.2.0.6-alpha-dev, but no Tors generated it and it was removed: Loading Loading @@ -409,7 +405,7 @@ $Id$ RELAY_ESTABLISH_INTRO cell, containing: KL Key length [2 octets] PK Bob's public key [KL octets] PK Introduction public key [KL octets] HS Hash of session info [20 octets] SIG Signature of above information [variable] Loading @@ -431,16 +427,13 @@ $Id$ currently associated with PK. On success, the OR sends Bob a RELAY_INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell with an empty payload. If a hidden service is configured to publish only v2 hidden service descriptors, Bob's OP does not include its own public key in the RELAY_ESTABLISH_INTRO cell, but the public key of a freshly generated key pair. The OP also includes these fresh public keys in the v2 hidden service descriptor together with the other introduction point information. The reason is that the introduction point does not need to and therefore should not know for which hidden service it works, so as to prevent it from tracking the hidden service's activity. If the hidden service is configured to publish both, v0 and v2 descriptors, two separate sets of introduction points are established. Bob's OP does not include its own public key in the RELAY_ESTABLISH_INTRO cell, but the public key of a freshly generated introduction key pair. The OP also includes these fresh public keys in the v2 hidden service descriptor together with the other introduction point information. The reason is that the introduction point does not need to and therefore should not know for which hidden service it works, so as to prevent it from tracking the hidden service's activity. 1.4. Bob's OP advertises his service descriptor(s). Loading @@ -464,10 +457,8 @@ $Id$ after its timestamp. At least every 18 hours, Bob's OP uploads a fresh descriptor. If Bob's OP is configured to publish v2 descriptors instead of or in addition to v0 descriptors, it does so to a changing subset of all v2 hidden service directories instead of the authoritative directory servers. Therefore, Bob's OP opens a stream via Tor to each Bob's OP publishes v2 descriptors to a changing subset of all v2 hidden service directories. Therefore, Bob's OP opens a stream via Tor to each responsible hidden service directory. (He may re-use old circuits for this.) Over this stream, Bob's OP makes an HTTP 'POST' request to a URL "/tor/rendezvous2/publish" relative to the hidden service Loading Loading @@ -520,12 +511,21 @@ $Id$ 1.6. Alice's OP retrieves a service descriptor. Alice opens a stream to a directory server via Tor, and makes an HTTP GET request for the document '/tor/rendezvous/<z>', where '<z>' is replaced with the encoding of Bob's public key as described above. (She may re-use old circuits for this.) The directory replies with a 404 HTTP response if it does not recognize <z>, and otherwise returns Bob's most recently uploaded service descriptor. Similarly to the description in section 1.4, Alice's OP fetches a v2 descriptor from a randomly chosen hidden service directory out of the changing subset of 6 nodes. If the request is unsuccessful, Alice retries the other remaining responsible hidden service directories in a random order. Alice relies on Bob to care about a potential clock skew between the two by possibly storing two sets of descriptors (see end of section 1.4). Alice's OP opens a stream via Tor to the chosen v2 hidden service directory. (She may re-use old circuits for this.) Over this stream, Alice's OP makes an HTTP 'GET' request for the document "/tor/rendezvous2/<z>", where z is replaced with the encoding of the descriptor ID. The directory replies with a 404 HTTP response if it does not recognize <z>, and otherwise returns Bob's most recently uploaded service descriptor. If Alice's OP receives a 404 response, it tries the other directory servers, and only fails the lookup if none recognize the public key hash. Loading @@ -541,22 +541,6 @@ $Id$ [Caching may make her partitionable, but she fetched it anonymously, and we can't very well *not* cache it. -RD] Alice's OP fetches v2 descriptors in parallel to v0 descriptors. Similarly to the description in section 1.4, the OP fetches a v2 descriptor from a randomly chosen hidden service directory out of the changing subset of 6 nodes. If the request is unsuccessful, Alice retries the other remaining responsible hidden service directories in a random order. Alice relies on Bob to care about a potential clock skew between the two by possibly storing two sets of descriptors (see end of section 1.4). Alice's OP opens a stream via Tor to the chosen v2 hidden service directory. (She may re-use old circuits for this.) Over this stream, Alice's OP makes an HTTP 'GET' request for the document "/tor/rendezvous2/<z>", where z is replaced with the encoding of the descriptor ID. The directory replies with a 404 HTTP response if it does not recognize <z>, and otherwise returns Bob's most recently uploaded service descriptor. 1.7. Alice's OP establishes a rendezvous point. When Alice requests a connection to a given location-hidden service, Loading Loading
rend-spec.txt +47 −63 Changes for rend-spec.txt: 47 added lines, 63 removed lines. Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -145,33 +145,10 @@ $Id$ 1.2. Bob's OP generates service descriptors. The first time the OP provides an advertised service, it generates a public/private keypair (stored locally). Periodically, the OP generates and publishes a descriptor of type "V0". a public/private keypair (stored locally). The "V0" descriptor contains: KL Key length [2 octets] PK Bob's public key [KL octets] TS A timestamp [4 octets] NI Number of introduction points [2 octets] Ipt A list of NUL-terminated ORs [variable] SIG Signature of above fields [variable] KL is the length of PK, in octets. TS is the number of seconds elapsed since Jan 1, 1970. 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 0.0.9.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, and now he doesn't have any. -RD] Beginning with 0.2.0.10-alpha, Bob's OP encodes "V2" descriptors in addition to "V0" descriptors. The format of a "V2" descriptor is as follows: Beginning with 0.2.0.10-alpha, Bob's OP encodes "V2" descriptors. The format of a "V2" descriptor is as follows: "rendezvous-service-descriptor" descriptor-id NL Loading Loading @@ -340,6 +317,10 @@ $Id$ (This ends the fields in the encrypted portion of the descriptor.) [It's ok for Bob to advertise 0 introduction points. He might want to do that if he previously advertised some introduction points, and now he doesn't have any. -RD] "signature" NL signature-string [At end, exactly once] Loading @@ -349,6 +330,21 @@ $Id$ 1.2.1. Other descriptor formats we don't use. Support for the V0 descriptor format was dropped in 0.2.2.0-alpha-dev: KL Key length [2 octets] PK Bob's public key [KL octets] TS A timestamp [4 octets] NI Number of introduction points [2 octets] Ipt A list of NUL-terminated ORs [variable] SIG Signature of above fields [variable] KL is the length of PK, in octets. TS is the number of seconds elapsed since Jan 1, 1970. The members of Ipt may be either (a) nicknames, or (b) identity key digests, encoded in hex, and prefixed with a '$'. The V1 descriptor format was understood and accepted from 0.1.1.5-alpha-cvs to 0.2.0.6-alpha-dev, but no Tors generated it and it was removed: Loading Loading @@ -409,7 +405,7 @@ $Id$ RELAY_ESTABLISH_INTRO cell, containing: KL Key length [2 octets] PK Bob's public key [KL octets] PK Introduction public key [KL octets] HS Hash of session info [20 octets] SIG Signature of above information [variable] Loading @@ -431,16 +427,13 @@ $Id$ currently associated with PK. On success, the OR sends Bob a RELAY_INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell with an empty payload. If a hidden service is configured to publish only v2 hidden service descriptors, Bob's OP does not include its own public key in the RELAY_ESTABLISH_INTRO cell, but the public key of a freshly generated key pair. The OP also includes these fresh public keys in the v2 hidden service descriptor together with the other introduction point information. The reason is that the introduction point does not need to and therefore should not know for which hidden service it works, so as to prevent it from tracking the hidden service's activity. If the hidden service is configured to publish both, v0 and v2 descriptors, two separate sets of introduction points are established. Bob's OP does not include its own public key in the RELAY_ESTABLISH_INTRO cell, but the public key of a freshly generated introduction key pair. The OP also includes these fresh public keys in the v2 hidden service descriptor together with the other introduction point information. The reason is that the introduction point does not need to and therefore should not know for which hidden service it works, so as to prevent it from tracking the hidden service's activity. 1.4. Bob's OP advertises his service descriptor(s). Loading @@ -464,10 +457,8 @@ $Id$ after its timestamp. At least every 18 hours, Bob's OP uploads a fresh descriptor. If Bob's OP is configured to publish v2 descriptors instead of or in addition to v0 descriptors, it does so to a changing subset of all v2 hidden service directories instead of the authoritative directory servers. Therefore, Bob's OP opens a stream via Tor to each Bob's OP publishes v2 descriptors to a changing subset of all v2 hidden service directories. Therefore, Bob's OP opens a stream via Tor to each responsible hidden service directory. (He may re-use old circuits for this.) Over this stream, Bob's OP makes an HTTP 'POST' request to a URL "/tor/rendezvous2/publish" relative to the hidden service Loading Loading @@ -520,12 +511,21 @@ $Id$ 1.6. Alice's OP retrieves a service descriptor. Alice opens a stream to a directory server via Tor, and makes an HTTP GET request for the document '/tor/rendezvous/<z>', where '<z>' is replaced with the encoding of Bob's public key as described above. (She may re-use old circuits for this.) The directory replies with a 404 HTTP response if it does not recognize <z>, and otherwise returns Bob's most recently uploaded service descriptor. Similarly to the description in section 1.4, Alice's OP fetches a v2 descriptor from a randomly chosen hidden service directory out of the changing subset of 6 nodes. If the request is unsuccessful, Alice retries the other remaining responsible hidden service directories in a random order. Alice relies on Bob to care about a potential clock skew between the two by possibly storing two sets of descriptors (see end of section 1.4). Alice's OP opens a stream via Tor to the chosen v2 hidden service directory. (She may re-use old circuits for this.) Over this stream, Alice's OP makes an HTTP 'GET' request for the document "/tor/rendezvous2/<z>", where z is replaced with the encoding of the descriptor ID. The directory replies with a 404 HTTP response if it does not recognize <z>, and otherwise returns Bob's most recently uploaded service descriptor. If Alice's OP receives a 404 response, it tries the other directory servers, and only fails the lookup if none recognize the public key hash. Loading @@ -541,22 +541,6 @@ $Id$ [Caching may make her partitionable, but she fetched it anonymously, and we can't very well *not* cache it. -RD] Alice's OP fetches v2 descriptors in parallel to v0 descriptors. Similarly to the description in section 1.4, the OP fetches a v2 descriptor from a randomly chosen hidden service directory out of the changing subset of 6 nodes. If the request is unsuccessful, Alice retries the other remaining responsible hidden service directories in a random order. Alice relies on Bob to care about a potential clock skew between the two by possibly storing two sets of descriptors (see end of section 1.4). Alice's OP opens a stream via Tor to the chosen v2 hidden service directory. (She may re-use old circuits for this.) Over this stream, Alice's OP makes an HTTP 'GET' request for the document "/tor/rendezvous2/<z>", where z is replaced with the encoding of the descriptor ID. The directory replies with a 404 HTTP response if it does not recognize <z>, and otherwise returns Bob's most recently uploaded service descriptor. 1.7. Alice's OP establishes a rendezvous point. When Alice requests a connection to a given location-hidden service, Loading