On 30 Mar 2020, at 09:18, Nick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org> wrote:
Walking Onions: week 4 update
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== Next steps
In this coming week I plan to try to wrap up section 3 on voting and
section 5 on extending circuits. I'm going to go back to the start
of section 2 and start revising all I've written so far for
consistency.
Some typos, ambiguities, and questions:
In the client and relay root documents:
require-versions should be require-protos
In the voting description:
It seems weird to suddenly add a ".txt" extension to tor's
directory URLs. No other directory URL has an extension.
(Apart from DirPortFrontPage.)
This sentence fragment is ambiguous:
"more than half of two" for example, means "at least 1",
not "one or more"
I suggest:
"more than half of two" for example, means "greater than 1",
not "one or more"
N_PRESENT is a typo here:
The lowest integer that is greater than half of N_FIELD.
Equivalent to CEIL( (N_PRESENT+1)/2 ).
Do we need a list of MDs, one for each consensus method range?
? md_literal : LiteralMD,
Measured is a uint, not a bool:
? weight : {
bw : uint,
? measured : bool,
? unmeasured : bool
},
https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/dir-spec.txt#n2432
[EXTENDING] https://github.com/nmathewson/walking-onions-wip/blob/master/specs/05-extending-circuits.md
[VOTING] https://github.com/nmathewson/walking-onions-wip/blob/master/specs/02-voting-and-authorities.md
[WIDE_EVERYTHING]
https://github.com/nmathewson/walking-onions-wip/blob/master/other-proposals/xxx-wide-everything.md