ResponseConsumer: pass resp to superclass constructor (nfc)

[hippotat.git] / PROTOCOL

diff --git a/PROTOCOL b/PROTOCOL
index 6b12e4f01a6ee114e6247024e3e82b3349083cf8..e18cf0e1554da169e6ffdcd8994ba3a727f8c17c 100644 (file)
--- a/PROTOCOL
+++ b/PROTOCOL
@@ -8,20 +8,30 @@ from the queue and returns them as the POST response body payload
 Each incoming request contains up to max_batch_up bytes of payload.
 It's a multipart/form-data.
 
-Authentication: for now, plaintext password
+Authentication: clock-based lifetime-limited bearer tokens.
 
-Routing assistance: none needed; secnet polypath will DTRT
+Encryption and integrity checking: none.  Use a real VPN over this!
+
+Routing assistance: none in hippotat; can be requested on client
+ from userv-ipif via `vroutes' parameter.  Use with secnet polypath
+ ideally uses the special support in secnet 0.4.x.
 
 Client form parameters (multipart/form-data):
  m             metadata, newline-separated list (text file) of
                        client ip address (textual)
-                       password
+                       token
                        target_requests_outstanding
- d              data (SLIP format)
+                       http_timeout
+ d              data (SLIP format, with SLIP_ESC and `-' swapped)
+
 
+Authentication token is:
+        <time_t in hex with no leading 0s> <hmac in base64>
+(separated by a single space).  The hmac is
+        HMAC(secret, <time_t in hex>)
 
 
-Future nonce-based authentication:
+Possible future nonce-based authentication:
 
 server keeps big nonce counter for each client
 meaning is: