Hi, For those reading along, this conversation started on tor-onions: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-onions/2018-September/date.html
> On 10 Oct 2018, at 08:24, nusenu <[email protected]> wrote: > > Gabbi Fisher: >> >> >> I wanted to learn more about how Tor circuit IDs work. Correct me if I'm >> wrong, but this is my current understanding: >> >> Each hop along the Tor network has its own circuit ID number. (No universal >> circuit ID number is used to identify a ip-to-ip stream of traffic). How >> are the circuit ID numbers determined at each hop? Circuit IDs are generated at random, with range restrictions depending on the negotiated link protocol version. See the spec for details. >> What generates the >> circuit ID number given to a packet? The initiating client or relay includes a random ID in the CREATE cell. Subsequent cells in both directions on that circuit are given the same ID. > maybe the tor-spec can help here: > https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/tor-spec.txt#n937 > > if it doesn't, the tor-dev ML might be a better place. +1 T _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
