From: Nick Mathewson Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 02:23:19 +0000 (-0400) Subject: Improve bug11743 message a bit. X-Git-Tag: tor-0.2.5.5-alpha~84 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c948bdaa2859bb4d92b8af526bf1363a854919e8;p=thirdparty%2Ftor.git Improve bug11743 message a bit. --- diff --git a/changes/bug11743 b/changes/bug11743 index 89e4bbc2b1..8435179086 100644 --- a/changes/bug11743 +++ b/changes/bug11743 @@ -3,11 +3,12 @@ - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's identity key as a part of its microdescriptor. - This is a workaround for bug #11743, where Tor clients do not + This is a workaround for bug #11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"), + where Tor clients do not support receiving multiple microdescriptors with the same SHA256 digest in the same consensus. When clients receive a consensus like this, they only use one of the relays. Without this fix, a - hostile relay could selectively disable client use of target + hostile relay could selectively disable some client use of target relays by constucting a router descriptor with a different identity and the same microdescriptor parameters and getting the authorities to list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix