two dir-spec cleanups from steve

svn:r11485
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Roger Dingledine 2007-09-18 16:05:39 +00:00
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downloads consisted mainly of router descriptors that clients
already had.
* Every directory authorities was a trust bottleneck: if a single
* Every directory authority was a trust bottleneck: if a single
directory authority lied, it could make clients believe for a time
an arbitrarily distorted view of the Tor network. (Clients
trusted the most recent signed document they downloaded.) Thus,
@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ $Id$
Routers may act as directory caches to reduce load on the directory
authorities. They announce this in their descriptors.
Periodically, each directory authority periodically generates a view of
Periodically, each directory authority generates a view of
the current descriptors and status for known routers. They send a
signed summary of this view (a "status vote") to the other
authorities. The authorities compute the result of this vote, and sign