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wip, fixes
[hippotat.git]
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PROTOCOL
diff --git
a/PROTOCOL
b/PROTOCOL
index 9969e61bb1f3ed30d055642e97d7ec4382ee7e57..b597b9a003f917a607ca64fd10cbee798d3f7773 100644
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--- a/
PROTOCOL
+++ b/
PROTOCOL
@@
-1,27
+1,32
@@
Server maintains a queue of outbound packets for each user
Server maintains a queue of outbound packets for each user
-Packets which are older than
MAX_QUEUE_TIME
are discarded
+Packets which are older than
the applicable max_queue_time
are discarded
-Each incoming request to the server takes up to
MAX_BATCH_DOWN
bytes
+Each incoming request to the server takes up to
max_batch_down
bytes
from the queue and returns them as the POST response body payload
from the queue and returns them as the POST response body payload
-Each incoming request contains up to
MAX_BATCH_UP
bytes of payload.
+Each incoming request contains up to
max_batch_up
bytes of payload.
It's a multipart/form-data.
Authentication: for now, plaintext password
It's a multipart/form-data.
Authentication: for now, plaintext password
-Sever side configuration:
- Per user but normally global
- MAX_MAX_BATCH_DOWN MAX_MAX_QUEUE_TIME
- Global
- MTU
- Per user
- PASSWORD
+Routing assistance: none needed; secnet polypath will DTRT
-Client side configuration;
- MAX_BATCH_DOWN MAX_QUEUE_TIME PASSWORD
+Client form parameters (multipart/form-data):
+ m metadata, newline-separated list (text file) of
+ client ip address (textual)
+ password
+ target_requests_outstanding
+ d data (SLIP format, with SLIP_ESC and `-' swapped)
-Routing assistance: none needed; secnet polypath will DTRT
-Client form parameters:
- I MBD MQT P D
+
+Future nonce-based authentication:
+
+server keeps big nonce counter for each client
+meaning is:
+ nonce counter is most recent nonce client has sent
+also server keeps bitmap of the previous ?64 nonces,
+ whether client has sent them
+
+client picks.... xxx