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Tor Rendezvous Specification
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0. Overview and preliminaries
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Read
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https://www.torproject.org/doc/design-paper/tor-design.html#sec:rendezvous
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before you read this specification. It will make more sense.
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Rendezvous points provide location-hidden services (server
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anonymity) for the onion routing network. With rendezvous points,
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Bob can offer a TCP service (say, a webserver) via the onion
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routing network, without revealing the IP of that service.
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Bob does this by anonymously advertising a public key for his
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service, along with a list of onion routers to act as "Introduction
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Points" for his service. He creates forward circuits to those
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introduction points, and tells them about his public key. To
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connect to Bob, Alice first builds a circuit to an OR to act as
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her "Rendezvous Point." She then connects to one of Bob's chosen
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introduction points, optionally provides authentication or
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authorization information, and asks it to tell him about her Rendezvous
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Point (RP). If Bob chooses to answer, he builds a circuit to her
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RP, and tells it to connect him to Alice. The RP joins their
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circuits together, and begins relaying cells. Alice's 'BEGIN'
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cells are received directly by Bob's OP, which passes data to
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and from the local server implementing Bob's service.
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Below we describe a network-level specification of this service,
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along with interfaces to make this process transparent to Alice
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(so long as she is using an OP).
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0.1. Notation, conventions and prerequisites
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In the specifications below, we use the same notation and terminology
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as in "tor-spec.txt". The service specified here also requires the
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existence of an onion routing network as specified in that file.
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H(x) is a SHA1 digest of x.
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PKSign(SK,x) is a PKCS.1-padded RSA signature of x with SK.
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PKEncrypt(SK,x) is a PKCS.1-padded RSA encryption of x with SK.
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Public keys are all RSA, and encoded in ASN.1.
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All integers are stored in network (big-endian) order.
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All symmetric encryption uses AES in counter mode, except where
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otherwise noted.
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In all discussions, "Alice" will refer to a user connecting to a
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location-hidden service, and "Bob" will refer to a user running a
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location-hidden service.
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An OP is (as defined elsewhere) an "Onion Proxy" or Tor client.
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An OR is (as defined elsewhere) an "Onion Router" or Tor server.
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An "Introduction point" is a Tor server chosen to be Bob's medium-term
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'meeting place'. A "Rendezvous point" is a Tor server chosen by Alice to
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be a short-term communication relay between her and Bob. All Tor servers
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potentially act as introduction and rendezvous points.
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0.2. Protocol outline
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1. Bob->Bob's OP: "Offer IP:Port as
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public-key-name:Port". [configuration]
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(We do not specify this step; it is left to the implementor of
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Bob's OP.)
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2. Bob's OP generates keypair and rendezvous service descriptor:
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"Meet public-key X at introduction point A, B, or C." (signed)
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3. Bob's OP->Introduction point via Tor: [introduction setup]
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"This pk is me."
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4. Bob's OP->directory service via Tor: publishes Bob's service
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descriptor [advertisement]
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5. Out of band, Alice receives a [x.y.]z.onion:port address.
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She opens a SOCKS connection to her OP, and requests
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x.y.z.onion:port.
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6. Alice's OP retrieves Bob's descriptor via Tor. [descriptor lookup.]
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7. Alice's OP chooses a rendezvous point, opens a circuit to that
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rendezvous point, and establishes a rendezvous circuit. [rendezvous
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setup.]
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8. Alice connects to the Introduction point via Tor, and tells it about
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her rendezvous point and optional authentication/authorization
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information. (Encrypted to Bob.) [Introduction 1]
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9. The Introduction point passes this on to Bob's OP via Tor, along the
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introduction circuit. [Introduction 2]
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10. Bob's OP decides whether to connect to Alice, and if so, creates a
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circuit to Alice's RP via Tor. Establishes a shared circuit.
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[Rendezvous.]
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11. Alice's OP sends begin cells to Bob's OP. [Connection]
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0.3. Constants and new cell types
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Relay cell types
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32 -- RELAY_ESTABLISH_INTRO
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33 -- RELAY_ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS
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34 -- RELAY_INTRODUCE1
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35 -- RELAY_INTRODUCE2
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36 -- RELAY_RENDEZVOUS1
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37 -- RELAY_RENDEZVOUS2
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38 -- RELAY_INTRO_ESTABLISHED
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39 -- RELAY_RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED
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40 -- RELAY_COMMAND_INTRODUCE_ACK
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0.4. Version overview
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There are several parts in the hidden service protocol that have
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changed over time, each of them having its own version number, whereas
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other parts remained the same. The following list of potentially
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versioned protocol parts should help reduce some confusion:
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- Hidden service descriptor: the binary-based v0 was the default for
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a long time, and an ascii-based v2 has been added by proposal
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114. See 1.2.
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- Hidden service descriptor propagation mechanism: currently related to
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the hidden service descriptor version -- v0 publishes to the original
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hs directory authorities, whereas v2 publishes to a rotating subset
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of relays with the "hsdir" flag; see 1.4 and 1.6.
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- Introduction protocol for how to generate an introduction cell:
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v0 specified a nickname for the rendezvous point and assumed the
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relay would know about it, whereas v2 now specifies IP address,
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port, and onion key so the relay doesn't need to already recognize
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it. See 1.8.
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1. The Protocol
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1.1. Bob configures his local OP.
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We do not specify a format for the OP configuration file. However,
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OPs SHOULD allow Bob to provide more than one advertised service
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per OP, and MUST allow Bob to specify one or more virtual ports per
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service. Bob provides a mapping from each of these virtual ports
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to a local IP:Port pair.
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1.2. Bob's OP generates service descriptors.
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The first time the OP provides an advertised service, it generates
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a public/private keypair (stored locally).
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Beginning with 0.2.0.10-alpha, Bob's OP encodes "V2" descriptors. The
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format of a "V2" descriptor is as follows:
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"rendezvous-service-descriptor" descriptor-id NL
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[At start, exactly once]
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Indicates the beginning of the descriptor. "descriptor-id" is a
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periodically changing identifier of 160 bits formatted as 32 base32
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chars that is calculated by the hidden service and its clients. If
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the optional "descriptor-cookie" is used, this "descriptor-id"
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cannot be computed by anyone else. (Everyone can verify that this
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"descriptor-id" belongs to the rest of the descriptor, even without
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knowing the optional "descriptor-cookie", as described below.) The
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"descriptor-id" is calculated by performing the following operation:
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descriptor-id =
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H(permanent-id | H(time-period | descriptor-cookie | replica))
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"permanent-id" is the permanent identifier of the hidden service,
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consisting of 80 bits. It can be calculated by computing the hash value
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of the public hidden service key and truncating after the first 80 bits:
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permanent-id = H(public-key)[:10]
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"H(time-period | descriptor-cookie | replica)" is the (possibly
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secret) id part that is
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necessary to verify that the hidden service is the true originator
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of this descriptor. It can only be created by the hidden service
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and its clients, but the "signature" below can only be created by
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the service.
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"descriptor-cookie" is an optional secret password of 128 bits that
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is shared between the hidden service provider and its clients.
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"replica" denotes the number of the non-consecutive replica.
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(Each descriptor is replicated on a number of _consecutive_ nodes
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in the identifier ring by making every storing node responsible
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for the identifier intervals starting from its 3rd predecessor's
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ID to its own ID. In addition to that, every service publishes
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multiple descriptors with different descriptor IDs in order to
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distribute them to different places on the ring. Therefore,
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"replica" chooses one of the _non-consecutive_ replicas. -KL)
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The "time-period" changes periodically depending on the global time and
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as a function of "permanent-id". The current value for "time-period" can
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be calculated using the following formula:
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time-period = (current-time + permanent-id-byte * 86400 / 256)
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/ 86400
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"current-time" contains the current system time in seconds since
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1970-01-01 00:00, e.g. 1188241957. "permanent-id-byte" is the first
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(unsigned) byte of the permanent identifier (which is in network
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order), e.g. 143. Adding the product of "permanent-id-byte" and
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86400 (seconds per day), divided by 256, prevents "time-period" from
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changing for all descriptors at the same time of the day. The result
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of the overall operation is a (network-ordered) 32-bit integer, e.g.
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13753 or 0x000035B9 with the example values given above.
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"version" version-number NL
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[Exactly once]
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The version number of this descriptor's format. In this case: 2.
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"permanent-key" NL a public key in PEM format
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[Exactly once]
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The public key of the hidden service which is required to verify the
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"descriptor-id" and the "signature".
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"secret-id-part" secret-id-part NL
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[Exactly once]
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The result of the following operation as explained above, formatted as
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32 base32 chars. Using this secret id part, everyone can verify that
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the signed descriptor belongs to "descriptor-id".
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secret-id-part = H(time-period | descriptor-cookie | replica)
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"publication-time" YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS NL
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[Exactly once]
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A timestamp when this descriptor has been created.
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"protocol-versions" version-string NL
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[Exactly once]
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A comma-separated list of recognized and permitted version numbers
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for use in INTRODUCE cells; these versions are described in section
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1.8 below.
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"introduction-points" NL encrypted-string
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[At most once]
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A list of introduction points. If the optional "descriptor-cookie" is
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used, this list is encrypted with AES in CTR mode with a random
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initialization vector of 128 bits that is written to
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the beginning of the encrypted string, and the "descriptor-cookie" as
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secret key of 128 bits length.
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The string containing the introduction point data (either encrypted
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or not) is encoded in base64, and surrounded with
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"-----BEGIN MESSAGE-----" and "-----END MESSAGE-----".
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The unencrypted string may begin with:
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["service-authentication" auth-type NL auth-data ... reserved]
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[At start, any number]
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The service-specific authentication data can be used to perform
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client authentication. This data is independent of the selected
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introduction point as opposed to "intro-authentication" below.
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Subsequently, an arbitrary number of introduction point entries may
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follow, each containing the following data:
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"introduction-point" identifier NL
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[At start, exactly once]
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The identifier of this introduction point: the base-32 encoded
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hash of this introduction point's identity key.
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"ip-address" ip-address NL
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[Exactly once]
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The IP address of this introduction point.
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"onion-port" port NL
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[Exactly once]
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The TCP port on which the introduction point is listening for
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incoming onion requests.
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"onion-key" NL a public key in PEM format
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[Exactly once]
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The public key that can be used to encrypt messages to this
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introduction point.
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"service-key" NL a public key in PEM format
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[Exactly once]
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The public key that can be used to encrypt messages to the hidden
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service.
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["intro-authentication" auth-type NL auth-data ... reserved]
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[Any number]
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The introduction-point-specific authentication data can be used
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to perform client authentication. This data depends on the
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selected introduction point as opposed to "service-authentication"
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above.
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(This ends the fields in the encrypted portion of the descriptor.)
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[It's ok for Bob to advertise 0 introduction points. He might want
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to do that if he previously advertised some introduction points,
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and now he doesn't have any. -RD]
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"signature" NL signature-string
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[At end, exactly once]
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A signature of all fields above with the private key of the hidden
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service.
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1.2.1. Other descriptor formats we don't use.
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Support for the V0 descriptor format was dropped in 0.2.2.0-alpha-dev:
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KL Key length [2 octets]
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PK Bob's public key [KL octets]
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TS A timestamp [4 octets]
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NI Number of introduction points [2 octets]
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Ipt A list of NUL-terminated ORs [variable]
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SIG Signature of above fields [variable]
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KL is the length of PK, in octets.
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TS is the number of seconds elapsed since Jan 1, 1970.
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The members of Ipt may be either (a) nicknames, or (b) identity key
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digests, encoded in hex, and prefixed with a '$'.
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The V1 descriptor format was understood and accepted from
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0.1.1.5-alpha-cvs to 0.2.0.6-alpha-dev, but no Tors generated it and
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it was removed:
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V Format byte: set to 255 [1 octet]
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V Version byte: set to 1 [1 octet]
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KL Key length [2 octets]
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PK Bob's public key [KL octets]
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TS A timestamp [4 octets]
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PROTO Protocol versions: bitmask [2 octets]
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NI Number of introduction points [2 octets]
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For each introduction point: (as in INTRODUCE2 cells)
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IP Introduction point's address [4 octets]
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PORT Introduction point's OR port [2 octets]
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ID Introduction point identity ID [20 octets]
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KLEN Length of onion key [2 octets]
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KEY Introduction point onion key [KLEN octets]
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SIG Signature of above fields [variable]
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A hypothetical "V1" descriptor, that has never been used but might
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be useful for historical reasons, contains:
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V Format byte: set to 255 [1 octet]
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V Version byte: set to 1 [1 octet]
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KL Key length [2 octets]
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PK Bob's public key [KL octets]
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TS A timestamp [4 octets]
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PROTO Rendezvous protocol versions: bitmask [2 octets]
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NA Number of auth mechanisms accepted [1 octet]
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For each auth mechanism:
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AUTHT The auth type that is supported [2 octets]
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AUTHL Length of auth data [1 octet]
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AUTHD Auth data [variable]
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NI Number of introduction points [2 octets]
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For each introduction point: (as in INTRODUCE2 cells)
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ATYPE An address type (typically 4) [1 octet]
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ADDR Introduction point's IP address [4 or 16 octets]
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PORT Introduction point's OR port [2 octets]
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AUTHT The auth type that is supported [2 octets]
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AUTHL Length of auth data [1 octet]
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AUTHD Auth data [variable]
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ID Introduction point identity ID [20 octets]
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KLEN Length of onion key [2 octets]
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KEY Introduction point onion key [KLEN octets]
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SIG Signature of above fields [variable]
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AUTHT specifies which authentication/authorization mechanism is
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required by the hidden service or the introduction point. AUTHD
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is arbitrary data that can be associated with an auth approach.
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Currently only AUTHT of [00 00] is supported, with an AUTHL of 0.
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See section 2 of this document for details on auth mechanisms.
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1.3. Bob's OP establishes his introduction points.
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The OP establishes a new introduction circuit to each introduction
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point. These circuits MUST NOT be used for anything but hidden service
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introduction. To establish the introduction, Bob sends a
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RELAY_ESTABLISH_INTRO cell, containing:
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KL Key length [2 octets]
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PK Introduction public key [KL octets]
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HS Hash of session info [20 octets]
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SIG Signature of above information [variable]
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[XXX011, need to add auth information here. -RD]
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To prevent replay attacks, the HS field contains a SHA-1 hash based on the
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shared secret KH between Bob's OP and the introduction point, as
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follows:
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HS = H(KH | "INTRODUCE")
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That is:
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HS = H(KH | [49 4E 54 52 4F 44 55 43 45])
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(KH, as specified in tor-spec.txt, is H(g^xy | [00]) .)
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Upon receiving such a cell, the OR first checks that the signature is
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correct with the included public key. If so, it checks whether HS is
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correct given the shared state between Bob's OP and the OR. If either
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check fails, the OP discards the cell; otherwise, it associates the
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circuit with Bob's public key, and dissociates any other circuits
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currently associated with PK. On success, the OR sends Bob a
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RELAY_INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell with an empty payload.
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Bob's OP does not include its own public key in the RELAY_ESTABLISH_INTRO
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cell, but the public key of a freshly generated introduction key pair.
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The OP also includes these fresh public keys in the v2 hidden service
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descriptor together with the other introduction point information. The
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reason is that the introduction point does not need to and therefore
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should not know for which hidden service it works, so as to prevent it
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from tracking the hidden service's activity.
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1.4. Bob's OP advertises his service descriptor(s).
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Bob's OP opens a stream to each directory server's directory port via Tor.
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(He may re-use old circuits for this.) Over this stream, Bob's OP makes
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an HTTP 'POST' request, to a URL "/tor/rendezvous/publish" relative to the
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directory server's root, containing as its body Bob's service descriptor.
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Bob should upload a service descriptor for each version format that
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is supported in the current Tor network.
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Upon receiving a descriptor, the directory server checks the signature,
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and discards the descriptor if the signature does not match the enclosed
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public key. Next, the directory server checks the timestamp. If the
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timestamp is more than 24 hours in the past or more than 1 hour in the
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future, or the directory server already has a newer descriptor with the
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same public key, the server discards the descriptor. Otherwise, the
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server discards any older descriptors with the same public key and
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version format, and associates the new descriptor with the public key.
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The directory server remembers this descriptor for at least 24 hours
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after its timestamp. At least every 18 hours, Bob's OP uploads a
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fresh descriptor.
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Bob's OP publishes v2 descriptors to a changing subset of all v2 hidden
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service directories. Therefore, Bob's OP opens a stream via Tor to each
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responsible hidden service directory. (He may re-use old circuits
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for this.) Over this stream, Bob's OP makes an HTTP 'POST' request to a
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URL "/tor/rendezvous2/publish" relative to the hidden service
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directory's root, containing as its body Bob's service descriptor.
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At any time, there are 6 hidden service directories responsible for
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keeping replicas of a descriptor; they consist of 2 sets of 3 hidden
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service directories with consecutive onion IDs. Bob's OP learns about
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the complete list of hidden service directories by filtering the
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consensus status document received from the directory authorities. A
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hidden service directory is deemed responsible for all descriptor IDs in
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the interval from its direct predecessor, exclusive, to its own ID,
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inclusive; it further holds replicas for its 2 predecessors. A
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participant only trusts its own routing list and never learns about
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routing information from other parties.
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Bob's OP publishes a new v2 descriptor once an hour or whenever its
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content changes. V2 descriptors can be found by clients within a given
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time period of 24 hours, after which they change their ID as described
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under 1.2. If a published descriptor would be valid for less than 60
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minutes (= 2 x 30 minutes to allow the server to be 30 minutes behind
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and the client 30 minutes ahead), Bob's OP publishes the descriptor
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under the ID of both, the current and the next publication period.
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1.5. Alice receives a x.y.z.onion address.
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When Alice receives a pointer to a location-hidden service, it is as a
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hostname of the form "z.onion" or "y.z.onion" or "x.y.z.onion", where
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z is a base-32 encoding of a 10-octet hash of Bob's service's public
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key, computed as follows:
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1. Let H = H(PK).
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2. Let H' = the first 80 bits of H, considering each octet from
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most significant bit to least significant bit.
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2. Generate a 16-character encoding of H', using base32 as defined
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in RFC 3548.
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(We only use 80 bits instead of the 160 bits from SHA1 because we
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don't need to worry about arbitrary collisions, and because it will
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make handling the url's more convenient.)
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The string "x", if present, is the base-32 encoding of the
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authentication/authorization required by the introduction point.
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The string "y", if present, is the base-32 encoding of the
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authentication/authorization required by the hidden service.
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Omitting a string is taken to mean auth type [00 00].
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See section 2 of this document for details on auth mechanisms.
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[Yes, numbers are allowed at the beginning. See RFC 1123. -NM]
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1.6. Alice's OP retrieves a service descriptor.
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Similarly to the description in section 1.4, Alice's OP fetches a v2
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descriptor from a randomly chosen hidden service directory out of the
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changing subset of 6 nodes. If the request is unsuccessful, Alice retries
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the other remaining responsible hidden service directories in a random
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order. Alice relies on Bob to care about a potential clock skew between
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the two by possibly storing two sets of descriptors (see end of section
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1.4).
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Alice's OP opens a stream via Tor to the chosen v2 hidden service
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directory. (She may re-use old circuits for this.) Over this stream,
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Alice's OP makes an HTTP 'GET' request for the document
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"/tor/rendezvous2/<z>", where z is replaced with the encoding of the
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descriptor ID. The directory replies with a 404 HTTP response if it does
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not recognize <z>, and otherwise returns Bob's most recently uploaded
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service descriptor.
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If Alice's OP receives a 404 response, it tries the other directory
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servers, and only fails the lookup if none recognize the public key hash.
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Upon receiving a service descriptor, Alice verifies with the same process
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as the directory server uses, described above in section 1.4.
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The directory server gives a 400 response if it cannot understand Alice's
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request.
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Alice should cache the descriptor locally, but should not use
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descriptors that are more than 24 hours older than their timestamp.
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[Caching may make her partitionable, but she fetched it anonymously,
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and we can't very well *not* cache it. -RD]
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1.7. Alice's OP establishes a rendezvous point.
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When Alice requests a connection to a given location-hidden service,
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and Alice's OP does not have an established circuit to that service,
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the OP builds a rendezvous circuit. It does this by establishing
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a circuit to a randomly chosen OR, and sending a
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RELAY_ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell to that OR. The body of that cell
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contains:
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RC Rendezvous cookie [20 octets]
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[XXX011 this looks like an auth mechanism. should we generalize here? -RD]
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The rendezvous cookie is an arbitrary 20-byte value, chosen randomly by
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Alice's OP.
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Upon receiving a RELAY_ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell, the OR associates the
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RC with the circuit that sent it. It replies to Alice with an empty
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RELAY_RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell to indicate success.
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Alice's OP MUST NOT use the circuit which sent the cell for any purpose
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other than rendezvous with the given location-hidden service.
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1.8. Introduction: from Alice's OP to Introduction Point
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Alice builds a separate circuit to one of Bob's chosen introduction
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points, and sends it a RELAY_INTRODUCE1 cell containing:
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Cleartext
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PK_ID Identifier for Bob's PK [20 octets]
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Encrypted to Bob's PK: (in the v0 intro protocol)
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RP Rendezvous point's nickname [20 octets]
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RC Rendezvous cookie [20 octets]
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g^x Diffie-Hellman data, part 1 [128 octets]
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OR (in the v1 intro protocol)
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VER Version byte: set to 1. [1 octet]
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RP Rendezvous point nick or ID [42 octets]
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RC Rendezvous cookie [20 octets]
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g^x Diffie-Hellman data, part 1 [128 octets]
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OR (in the v2 intro protocol)
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VER Version byte: set to 2. [1 octet]
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IP Rendezvous point's address [4 octets]
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PORT Rendezvous point's OR port [2 octets]
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ID Rendezvous point identity ID [20 octets]
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KLEN Length of onion key [2 octets]
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KEY Rendezvous point onion key [KLEN octets]
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RC Rendezvous cookie [20 octets]
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g^x Diffie-Hellman data, part 1 [128 octets]
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PK_ID is the hash of Bob's public key. RP is NUL-padded and
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|
terminated. In version 0, it must contain a nickname. In version 1,
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it must contain EITHER a nickname or an identity key digest that is
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|
encoded in hex and prefixed with a '$'.
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The hybrid encryption to Bob's PK works just like the hybrid
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encryption in CREATE cells (see tor-spec). Thus the payload of the
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version 0 RELAY_INTRODUCE1 cell on the wire will contain
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20+42+16+20+20+128=246 bytes, and the version 1 and version 2
|
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introduction formats have other sizes.
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Through Tor 0.2.0.6-alpha, clients only generated the v0 introduction
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format, whereas hidden services have understood and accepted v0,
|
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v1, and v2 since 0.1.1.x. As of Tor 0.2.0.7-alpha and 0.1.2.18,
|
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clients switched to using the v2 intro format.
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|
If Alice has downloaded a v2 descriptor, she uses the contained public
|
|
key ("service-key") instead of Bob's public key to create the
|
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RELAY_INTRODUCE1 cell as described above.
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|
1.8.1. Other introduction formats we don't use.
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|
We briefly speculated about using the following format for the
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"encrypted to Bob's PK" part of the introduction, but no Tors have
|
|
ever generated these.
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VER Version byte: set to 3. [1 octet]
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ATYPE An address type (typically 4) [1 octet]
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ADDR Rendezvous point's IP address [4 or 16 octets]
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|
PORT Rendezvous point's OR port [2 octets]
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|
AUTHT The auth type that is supported [2 octets]
|
|
AUTHL Length of auth data [1 octet]
|
|
AUTHD Auth data [variable]
|
|
ID Rendezvous point identity ID [20 octets]
|
|
KLEN Length of onion key [2 octets]
|
|
KEY Rendezvous point onion key [KLEN octets]
|
|
RC Rendezvous cookie [20 octets]
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|
g^x Diffie-Hellman data, part 1 [128 octets]
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|
1.9. Introduction: From the Introduction Point to Bob's OP
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|
|
|
If the Introduction Point recognizes PK_ID as a public key which has
|
|
established a circuit for introductions as in 1.3 above, it sends the body
|
|
of the cell in a new RELAY_INTRODUCE2 cell down the corresponding circuit.
|
|
(If the PK_ID is unrecognized, the RELAY_INTRODUCE1 cell is discarded.)
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|
|
|
After sending the RELAY_INTRODUCE2 cell, the OR replies to Alice with an
|
|
empty RELAY_COMMAND_INTRODUCE_ACK cell. If no RELAY_INTRODUCE2 cell can
|
|
be sent, the OR replies to Alice with a non-empty cell to indicate an
|
|
error. (The semantics of the cell body may be determined later; the
|
|
current implementation sends a single '1' byte on failure.)
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|
|
|
When Bob's OP receives the RELAY_INTRODUCE2 cell, it decrypts it with
|
|
the private key for the corresponding hidden service, and extracts the
|
|
rendezvous point's nickname, the rendezvous cookie, and the value of g^x
|
|
chosen by Alice.
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|
|
|
1.10. Rendezvous
|
|
|
|
Bob's OP builds a new Tor circuit ending at Alice's chosen rendezvous
|
|
point, and sends a RELAY_RENDEZVOUS1 cell along this circuit, containing:
|
|
RC Rendezvous cookie [20 octets]
|
|
g^y Diffie-Hellman [128 octets]
|
|
KH Handshake digest [20 octets]
|
|
|
|
(Bob's OP MUST NOT use this circuit for any other purpose.)
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|
|
|
If the RP recognizes RC, it relays the rest of the cell down the
|
|
corresponding circuit in a RELAY_RENDEZVOUS2 cell, containing:
|
|
|
|
g^y Diffie-Hellman [128 octets]
|
|
KH Handshake digest [20 octets]
|
|
|
|
(If the RP does not recognize the RC, it discards the cell and
|
|
tears down the circuit.)
|
|
|
|
When Alice's OP receives a RELAY_RENDEZVOUS2 cell on a circuit which
|
|
has sent a RELAY_ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell but which has not yet received
|
|
a reply, it uses g^y and H(g^xy) to complete the handshake as in the Tor
|
|
circuit extend process: they establish a 60-octet string as
|
|
K = SHA1(g^xy | [00]) | SHA1(g^xy | [01]) | SHA1(g^xy | [02])
|
|
and generate
|
|
KH = K[0..15]
|
|
Kf = K[16..31]
|
|
Kb = K[32..47]
|
|
|
|
Subsequently, the rendezvous point passes relay cells, unchanged, from
|
|
each of the two circuits to the other. When Alice's OP sends
|
|
RELAY cells along the circuit, it first encrypts them with the
|
|
Kf, then with all of the keys for the ORs in Alice's side of the circuit;
|
|
and when Alice's OP receives RELAY cells from the circuit, it decrypts
|
|
them with the keys for the ORs in Alice's side of the circuit, then
|
|
decrypts them with Kb. Bob's OP does the same, with Kf and Kb
|
|
interchanged.
|
|
|
|
1.11. Creating streams
|
|
|
|
To open TCP connections to Bob's location-hidden service, Alice's OP sends
|
|
a RELAY_BEGIN cell along the established circuit, using the special
|
|
address "", and a chosen port. Bob's OP chooses a destination IP and
|
|
port, based on the configuration of the service connected to the circuit,
|
|
and opens a TCP stream. From then on, Bob's OP treats the stream as an
|
|
ordinary exit connection.
|
|
[ Except he doesn't include addr in the connected cell or the end
|
|
cell. -RD]
|
|
|
|
Alice MAY send multiple RELAY_BEGIN cells along the circuit, to open
|
|
multiple streams to Bob. Alice SHOULD NOT send RELAY_BEGIN cells for any
|
|
other address along her circuit to Bob; if she does, Bob MUST reject them.
|
|
|
|
2. Authentication and authorization.
|
|
|
|
Foo.
|
|
|
|
3. Hidden service directory operation
|
|
|
|
This section has been introduced with the v2 hidden service descriptor
|
|
format. It describes all operations of the v2 hidden service descriptor
|
|
fetching and propagation mechanism that are required for the protocol
|
|
described in section 1 to succeed with v2 hidden service descriptors.
|
|
|
|
3.1. Configuring as hidden service directory
|
|
|
|
Every onion router that has its directory port open can decide whether it
|
|
wants to store and serve hidden service descriptors. An onion router which
|
|
is configured as such includes the "hidden-service-dir" flag in its router
|
|
descriptors that it sends to directory authorities.
|
|
|
|
The directory authorities include a new flag "HSDir" for routers that
|
|
decided to provide storage for hidden service descriptors and that
|
|
have been running for at least 24 hours.
|
|
|
|
3.2. Accepting publish requests
|
|
|
|
Hidden service directory nodes accept publish requests for v2 hidden service
|
|
descriptors and store them to their local memory. (It is not necessary to
|
|
make descriptors persistent, because after restarting, the onion router
|
|
would not be accepted as a storing node anyway, because it has not been
|
|
running for at least 24 hours.) All requests and replies are formatted as
|
|
HTTP messages. Requests are initiated via BEGIN_DIR cells directed to
|
|
the router's directory port, and formatted as HTTP POST requests to the URL
|
|
"/tor/rendezvous2/publish" relative to the hidden service directory's root,
|
|
containing as its body a v2 service descriptor.
|
|
|
|
A hidden service directory node parses every received descriptor and only
|
|
stores it when it thinks that it is responsible for storing that descriptor
|
|
based on its own routing table. See section 1.4 for more information on how
|
|
to determine responsibility for a certain descriptor ID.
|
|
|
|
3.3. Processing fetch requests
|
|
|
|
Hidden service directory nodes process fetch requests for hidden service
|
|
descriptors by looking them up in their local memory. (They do not need to
|
|
determine if they are responsible for the passed ID, because it does no harm
|
|
if they deliver a descriptor for which they are not (any more) responsible.)
|
|
All requests and replies are formatted as HTTP messages. Requests are
|
|
initiated via BEGIN_DIR cells directed to the router's directory port,
|
|
and formatted as HTTP GET requests for the document "/tor/rendezvous2/<z>",
|
|
where z is replaced with the encoding of the descriptor ID.
|
|
|