From 6750f7e8b1eb795c1f85eee8b96a0516de917cc1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Roger Dingledine Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 03:05:52 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] clarify our rules for assigning the Named flag --- contrib/auto-naming/README | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/contrib/auto-naming/README b/contrib/auto-naming/README index 77e6af6483..df78491a79 100644 --- a/contrib/auto-naming/README +++ b/contrib/auto-naming/README @@ -9,9 +9,9 @@ This toolset allows automatic maintaining of a binding list of nicknames to identity keys, implementing Tor proposal 123[1]. The rules are simple: - - A router claiming to be Bob is named (i.e. added to the binding list) + - A router claiming to be Bob becomes named (i.e. added to the binding list) if there currently does not exist a different binding for that - nickname, the router has been around for a bit (2 weeks), no other + nickname, the router has been around for a bit (2 weeks), and no other router has used that nickname in a while (1 month). - A binding is removed if the server that owns it has not been seen in a long time (6 months).