$Id$
-[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
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,