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The directory authorities exchange votes every hour to come up with a Network Status network-status-vote-3 1.0 recent archive # The consensus is made up of router status entries containingįlags, heuristics used for relay selection, etc. Publish a document called a consensus, or network status document. These central points are called directory authorities, and every hour they Though Tor relays are decentralized, the directories that track the Network Status network-status-consensus-3 1.0 recent archive # The extra-info descriptors in the descriptor archives

These are self-published, like server descriptors, but not downloaded by Relay Extra-info extra-info 1.0 recent archive #Įxtra-info descriptors contain relay information that Tor clients do not The server descriptors in the descriptor archivesĬontain one descriptor per file, whereas the recently published filesĬontain all descriptors collected in an hour concatenated into a single Tor clients once downloaded this information, but now they use Server descriptors contain information that relays publish about

Relay Server server-descriptor 1.0 recent archive # Relays and directory authorities publish relay descriptors, so thatĬlients can select relays for their paths through the Tor network.Īll these relay descriptors are specified in theĭirectory protocol, version 3 specification document (or in the Not parse files with known descriptor type and higher major version The format $descriptortype $major.$minor.Īny tool that processes these descriptors may parse files without metaĭata or with an unknown descriptor type at its own risk, can safely parseįiles with known descriptor type and same major version number, and should Torperf's and OnionPerf's Performance DataĮach descriptor provided here contains an annotation using Hidden Service Descriptors hidden-service-descriptor-3 1.0 Hidden Service hidden-service-descriptor 1.0 Network Status network-status-entry-3 1.0īridge Network bridge-network-status 1.2īridge Server bridge-server-descriptor 1.2 Microdescriptor network-status-microdesc-consensus-3 1.0 Network Status network-status-consensus-3 1.0 Descriptors are available in two different file formats: recent descriptors that were published in the last 72 hours are available as plain text, and archived descriptors covering many years of Tor network history are available as compressed tarballs.